BBC Plug Yet Another Coronavirus Green Recovery Plan
By Paul Homewood
h/t Jonathan Scott
I may be wrong, but I have yet to see the BBC run a report on companies that want a recovery plan based on business needs!
Yet they have plenty of space to publicise green groups demands.
A wildlife charity has suggested ways Wales can recover from the coronavirus outbreak and protect the environment at the same time.
The RSPB wants politicians to commit to its "green recovery" plan, which it says can benefit people, the economy and the environment.
Its plan includes less priority for building new roads in favour of improving public transport.
The Welsh Government said it was committed to a "green-led" recovery.
Katie-Jo Luxton, director of RSPB Cymru, said: "This is the time to put in place a green recovery that will restore nature, tackle climate change and secure the wellbeing of this and future generations.
"Responding to Covid-19 and Brexit presents Wales with a unique opportunity to do things differently.
"We must put aside our reliance on fossil fuels and destructive, polluting industries and instead opt for a plan that stimulates sustainable economic recovery that is good for nature and people."
Lockdown rules have offered a glimpse where wildlife has been allowed to flourish.
With council services on hold, roadside wildflowers have been left to bloom, becoming habitats for species of flowers and bees.
Even wild goats have been attracted off the higher grounds to roam town centres, due to the quiet streets.
Image caption These Cardneddau mountain ponies have had the run of the RSPB’s nature reserve at Conwy, which is closed
Helen Jowett is manager of the RSPB’s reserve in Conwy and one of the few staff left on the site. The reserve is closed to the public and most of her colleagues have been furloughed.
"There’s a real sense that nature has been able to take over during the lockdown in ways that wouldn’t have been possible previously. I think people have appreciated that," she said.
"I hope that we’ll be able to see nature continue to play a bigger part in our lives as the lockdown is lifted."
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Islands off the Welsh coast boast some of the biggest bird colonies in the world
The RSPB has also said the Welsh Government should aim for greenhouse gas emissions to be at net zero by 2045, and should put laws in place to make sure this happens.
It is calling for stronger laws to protect the environment, particularly sensitive habitats like woodlands, peatlands, semi-natural grasslands and seagrass meadows. The charity says extra funding should be prioritised to restore habitats like these.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52799589
The RSPB long ago sold its soul to the climate lobby, but this latest demand is nothing more than a political manifesto.
Public transport instead of roads? Sorry, but what the hell has that got to do with the RSPB?
Destructive, polluting industries? I’m sure the steelworkers at Port Talbot will welcome the news that the RSPB want to shut them down.
Funnily enough, the RSPB don’t see the irony in their comment that nature has been able to take over at their nature reserve, whilst most of their staff are furloughed. Perhaps they all ought to be redeployed as bus drivers, instead of the steelworkers!
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“Its plan includes less priority for building new roads in favour of improving public transport.”
As far as the corona virus is concerned, the crowded public subways and busses are not the place to be. And don’t forget, they each add to the soot and other exhaust particulates as well as increasing the dreaded CO2 everyone is so worried about.
Public transport instead of roads?
So public transport in Wales doesn’t need roads?
Then what is the Welsh for “flying car?
Perhaps not the right place to ask but where can we go to find a news channel/paper that just reports facts as events occur, and not the thoughts/ideas/puff/propaganda that we seem to get everywhere?
Good luck with that. You need to research everything, regardless of which “side” it’s on, to get to the truth.
Katie-Jo Luxton, director of RSPB Cymru, said: “We must put aside our reliance on fossil fuels and destructive, polluting industries and instead opt for a plan that stimulates sustainable economic recovery that is good for nature and people.”
Quite right, Katie!! Go ahead and stop relying on those awful fossil fuels. Don’t wait for the rest of us, show us the way!
As for Helen Jowett claiming that “[t]here’s a real sense that nature has been able to take over during the lockdown in ways that wouldn’t have been possible previously.” which, in spite of furloughing staff seems to say to me that you were over-staffed before.
One thing they should get clear, without the prosperity brought about by FF these people would not be able to garner the bequests of the very people who managed to accrue wealth as a result of FF. RSPB is a hobby for a wealthy nation. They need to think about where it gets its wealth.
Typical alarmist drivel with no real plan other than ‘stop what we’re doing and do something different’. Who will be using this increased public transportation with no jobs to commute to or no money to spend on anything once you get there, wherever “there” is.
Most of us “love” nature, we love it for free .We love the wild green countryside.We do not require payment by a Quango to do so. Perhaps K-J Luxton and her ilk could follow our example.
Just think that Wales was built on 100 years of coal mining that pulled the entire nation out of poverty. I understand there are still folk living there that want the mines re-opened.
A picture paints a thousand words….
So let’s see what the pictures are saying…..
Picture 1 shows pretty flowers but far enough away from the roadside to be unaffected by less traffic or lack of verge cutting. Close to the road looks uninteresting.
Picture 2 shows just as it was before.
Picture 3 shows life on uninhabited Welsh islands . where the lockdown has made no difference.
Someone is not telling the truth.
The wildlife will have benefited from not being trapped, weighed, ringed, cameras strapped to them, and all the rest of the intrusions perpetrated on wild birds by “conservationists”.
Looking forward to seeing the RSPB stating that wind farms are devastating to native bird life, bats and the insects in their environs, particularly raptors, as have been evidenced by countless studies around the world, much more so than many other studies on the impact of fossil fuelled power stations on resident birdlife. But, there’s no chance of that as the RSPB are, now, a fully paid up, member of the politicised Green Blob.
As an aside, just down the road from my humble abode, the green tinged Scottish government have recently approved ‘on appeal’, despite losing the first and second applications, and on the back of vociferous local objections, and notwithstanding the windfarm’s company offered ‘bung’ of tens of thousands of pounds to local good causes, the erection of a clifftop 350m windfarm. These turbines, over 500m above shoreline sea level, will be on the direct main flying route of migrating Icelandic Whooper Swans and Tufted Ducks, amidst a wild outcrop featuring rare native harriers, falcons and hawks. Their imposition went without a squeak of opposition from our beloved RSPB. They were consulted, apparently, but failed to submit their observations in time to be considered. The fact that the wind farm company behind the application donate to the RSPB is purely a coincidence, of course. The wind farm was approved. The RSPB are not fit for purpose under their current management and the sooner genuine bird lovers stop contributing to them the better.
I withdrew my subscription to the RSPB years ago when I learnt they did not object to the shooting of birds on Malta due to some royal pregrogative. Well, it is the ‘Royal’ Society so one has to consider the needs and perspectives of current royals too…….
Humans who feel that humans are a burden on nature and wish to lighten that load could of course get together and do what the courageous people at Jonestown did instead of just indulging in nonsensical talk. Talk is cheap.
Congratulations chaamjamal. Best post of the week! It’s rather curious that the people who currently think that humans are a plague on the planet feel rather disinclined to top themselves for the public good! It’s almost as if they don’t really believe their own logic but would rather someone else prove their theory for them. That’s the Green Blob all over. Having said that, Im not sure how many of the poor citizens of Jonestown volunteered for their swift exit or how many were actually executed by those leaders who thought that they knew better?
Good point sir. Many were indeed executed but there may have been real believers who were on a journey to the promised land.
I love seeing all the wild flowers on the verges in the RSPB Çonwy reserve in Picture 2!
The BBC continues to roll out it’s ‘Green’ (i.e. anti-manufacturing) propaganda — what’s new? Certainly it ain’t news!
Here’s something the BBC has not reported …
Wed, 27 May 2020
On Tuesday May 26th southwest China’s Yunnan Province bad weather forced authorities to lock Meili Snow Mountain National Park in Deqin County.
On Wednesday May 27th local authorities stated that the park’s inside and outside roads suffered damage due to the continuous rain and heavy snow, and to guarantee the security of tourists and pilgrims, publicity department mentioned that the company operating the park carried out urgent situation effort.
Or
Wed, 27 May 2020
Dangerous driving conditions due to consistent snowfall in the Eastern Cape has forced provincial transport authorities to close parts of major roads in the province.
Transport department spokesperson Khusela Rantjie announced on Tuesday night that the N9 between Graaff-Reinet and Middelburg, and the R61 between Cradock and the N9 would be closed off with immediate effect.
Or
A cold front accompanied by snow and strong winds caused disruptions to Turkey’s eastern provinces beginning Sunday, May 24, 2020. The storm led to extensive damage to properties, power blackouts, traffic interruptions, and at least one person dead.
In the southeastern province of Hakkari, strong winds damaged roofs of houses and public buildings in the city center. A booth serving as a taxi stand was also blown away, rolling into a street.
Homes in Van’s city center also took a hit, as well as greenhouses and fields in the nearby districts of Gurpinar, Saray, Gevas, and Ozalp, where a barn’s roof collapsed, killing many sheep.
More real world news is available on https://watchers.news/ and https://www.sott.net/category/4-Earth-Changes
Stay healthy and happy, stop watching TV 🙂
There’s nothing wrong with watching TV – just avoid news programmes, new BBC adaptations of classics, anything with Attenborough or Packham and any programme where the write mentions climate change. There are plenty of things worth watching that won’t make you want to smash the TV.
I’ve been about 30 years without TV, and IMO it was not ever an essential, never was that entertaining. I can not imagine that today’s version is any better — indeed from what I hear and read about it, it’s got far, far worse. If you wish to be programmed go ahead and watch it — it’s your time to waste.
There’s plenty more things I prefer to investigate, or waste my time on.
“We must put aside our reliance on fossil fuels and destructive, polluting industries and instead opt for a plan that stimulates sustainable economic recovery that is good for nature and people.”
We must also put aside our reliance on the enormous ego of humans that says that we are now the caretakers of nature because that is what keeps us from being part of nature.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/07/24/greta3/