My blogging has become infrequent, the rythm of publication is erratic to say the least. My job as Energy and Sustainability Advisor for local hospitals and nursing homes have taken quite my time and energy (pun intended). But I wanted to wish you all a happy and healthy new year, albeit with six or seven weeks late.
Now that we are closer to 2050 than to the year 2000, it might be a good time to actually do something about climate change, sustainability and the rest. The election of Donald Trump in the US sure don’t point to Mankind finally getting any wiser. The beginning of this second term is completely chaotic and makes one wonder what will be next ? Will it be another pandemic ? World War III ? Who knows ?
There are some certainties though. In any case, we all need to become much more resilient as the world will get quite crazy in the next few years. Wasting less vital resources – energy, water, food – will always pay back. Pursuing renewables will always bring massive savings in terms of money and will always slash pollution.
This blog is now over 18 years old. I would haven’t thought I would still be maintaining this blog, but hey, sustainability is still relevant. We still have ginormous amounts of work to do. Solar and wind and batteries have reached affordability and are changing a lot of things but not everything. The future of our species and of Life on this beautiful planet still hangs in the balance. Now is not the right time to give up…
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