Brown Murky Skies Again

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I live in South Africa and this morning I woke up to a blanket of brown muck in the sky and it is more noticeable in winter time. I see this on a daily basis and it is horrendous but it isn't as bad as China and India. The power stations that are being built here today are still the coal fired ones and they don't care. When you fly over the region and see these coal stacks pushing out the pollution at the rate that they do no wonder the skies have changed.It is business as usual and the rest of the world doesn't say a word.

Today we are all trying to go greener using renewable energy wherever we can. The European Union has targets in place that they are trying to hit every year by increasing the percentage balance between fossil fuels and green energy.

When the European Commision met in 2010 it was geared to stick the use of fossil fuels in reverse and the aim was by 2020 to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30 percent. That is a great initiative and one we should all get behind ,but will it make a difference.

The way I look at it if you have a hundred people in a pool and 30 people don't urinate and the others do you still have a pool full of pee. Europe is not the industrial giant it was from yesteryear and the world should be doing something about the rest of the major culprits.

What about the likes of India ,the Far East and developing countries like South Africa who use and abuse the planet and are continuing like there are no problems anywhere. Nothing will be resolved until the rest of the world speaks out and actually does something. the only way is by having strong leaders who aren't manipulated and are politically correct, meaning too soft. If we look at who is in power around the world today the majority are soft and weak which is not good.

My feeling is that it is all words and very little is being done behind the scenes as money talks and it is that simple. The only way change will happen when there is no choice and there is a disaster of some sorts. This is the human way I am afraid and unless people speak up and talk with their feet nothing will happen. I would love to see a boycott of products from certain countries forcing them to change, but we all know that wont happen.