” … WareRabbit” portrays it well as an unfortunate lifestyle for people damned to be predated upon by the mysterious ghosts of the past & creatures of the night.

However, when I was young, Preston was already ‘Post Apocalyptic’ in my opinion.

But realistically, can any of us go back there, to this UTOPIA?

It’s Lancashire for Heaven’s sakes and as such is the very home to the Industrial Revolution, the necessity for the adherence to strict timekeeping and the exploitation of cheap and imported labour. I come from there. It’s a hard place that no doubt people are by force of necessity seeking to modernise.

I haven’t been back to see the cobbled streets of the old mill towns of ‘dark satanic mill’ fame according to some, but I’m sure there are plenty of SUV’s roaming the highways around there. Everyone is on the make, out for himself or herself. Selfishness remains our greatest dilemma, from there our effect upon the environment inevitably stems. ‘Change your heart, it will astound you, look around you’

Best Wishes & Kind Regards,

Diamond Geezer.

The Chinese have sensibly started investing in nuclear power (20 pebble-bed reactors) as they realise there are no alternatives with as few complications.
Recently they tested one to extremis by removing all the helium coolant; it self-reduced the reactor temperate exactly as predicted.

The contribution to climate change from China is large and rapidly growing.
Far greater use of nuclear power and renewables at the same time as reducing our CO2 output is desperately needed now.

I was very sorry to read Albert Bate’s prejudiced (very anti-nuclear) and mostly patronising review of “The Revenge of Gaia”. It’s as though he didn’t like a house because of it’s doormat.

In the above article too his nuclear prejudice prevents him telling the whole truth e.g. that Germany is using more nuclear power than ever – it’s just that they import it from France and (ironically) Russia.

Cheers!