FIVE DAYS TO GO!

In the past few days, over a thousand events have been scheduled worldwide to coincide with the Global Wake-Up Call about Climate Change on 21 September.

Not all these events will happen on that day - in Worcester, two special screenings of the movie 'Age of Stupid' have been arranged at Worcester College of Techonology and Worcester Sixth Form College in October. But these are attached to the Global Wake-Up Call, an international attempt to demonstrate that the oil, coal and nuclear lobbies are only going to lead our governments down the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire, and what we all need now is decisive action against global catastrophe.

It would be interesting to arrange a screening of 'Age of Stupid' in the Lenches area, because - as we all know - climate change is going to give the Lenches a miss. Global warming will read their silly signs ('2km OK') and obviously obey the injunction not to overheat the climate within two kilometres of some rather nice homes.

In reality, of course, the people of the Lenches are as responsible for climate change and for organising an intelligent response to it as anybody. Which is why the VVASP gobbledegook about 'Appropriate Technology' and 'Appropriate Environment' is so utterly meaningless.

Lenchwick Windfarm will be a small step in the right direction - good for the area, good for tourism, good for house prices, good for the environment, good for Britain and good for the planet. Sadly, a small bunch of unprincipled and deluded nimbies are fighting desperately to stop this vital and elegant development.

They just don't get it, do they?

But the rest of the world does. As we'll see on 21 September.

Maybe then politicians like Peter Luff will wise up and realise that appeasing the nimby brigade is a profoundly silly thing to do.