The Future we Choose Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac Feb 2020 (Amazon £9.54.) I write this to encourage you to obtain and read this important book and to give you a useful summary of its contents. It has a powerful and inspiring message, that there still is the possibility for us to build a fulfilling and sustainable future, and I do this for the sake of my grandchildren. John Baxter 2021 The Future we Choose
Revised for 17-3-21 The Right to Choose a Safe, Painless, Death
For our ANVIL Zoom Session 7.pm. Wednesday. For invitation email me.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER
The first version of this paper was written in Oct 2013 for ANVIL and is now much revised in this my eightieth year of March 2021. In it I put the case that it be recognised that everyone should be able to die painlessly (and safely) at a time of their own choosing as a basic human right and the law should be changed to facilitate this. Continue reading
CC (Climate catastrophe) 50 MPH and the SUV
I have just sent this post to relevant politicians of all the main parties for these suggestions would only work effectively with cross-party support
GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT CO2 Continue reading
ANVIL UNDER COVID. OFF WE ZOOM 2021 Programme
After an informal planning meeting on Zoom to discuss our future we agreed ANVIL will need to operate through ZOOM until we are all vaccinated. Continue reading
Reflections on what I have learnt about Covid-19
How lucky we have been in having among our ANVIL Associates Greg Atkins, former professor of Virology at Trinity College Dublin, who offered, just before Covid-19 appeared at the end of 2019, to give us a talk on his specialism. He entitled his talk “The Danger Posed by Emerging Virus Infections.” This week, on the 10th of June 2020, backed up by his UTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19RdLqBMoK4 Greg updated ANVIL and lead us in a discussion of his subject on ZOOM. Continue reading
Covid-19
COVID-19 A poem for a tough time. Continue reading
Proposal for a National Resilience Service
This paper has been a long time in developing, ( I wrote the first version just before the Co-alition came to power) but the need for it has become increasingly relevant in my opinion, first as a result of the Thunberg and Attenborough wake -up calls of 2019 and for me reading The Uninhabitable Earth by Wallace-Wells. Continue reading
29-3-2020 Daily Blog Starting SUNDAY
Daily Blog Starting SUNDAY 29-3-20
Monday 11th May. Blog Ends. Zoom Meeting on National Resilience Service Friday 15th May 11 a.m.
Dear ANVIL Associates and other friends,
I have written a short paper (2 sides of A4 which I am told is the most any mover and shaker can be expected to read) putting forward the idea that as we have an NHS we now need an NRS. (to see the paper click on the Politics category) Following this is my final Lock-Down Blog. Continue reading
Sunday 10th May
The weather got very fierce, cold and windy. Elizabeth’s garden was under threat. 9am Andrew Marr had Dominic Raab stonewalling before the 7pm address to the nation by Boris. He looked tired and stressed and spoke as if he was addressing a huge crowd instead of a mike in no 10. He replaced his key slogans with uncertainties saying that those who could not work at home should return to work without using public transport and that people could drive to take exercise as they wished. These comments caused uproar as it turned out he had not consulted Nicola Sturgen in Scotland, the Welsh Ist Minister,the trade unions or Keir Starmer. It all added up to sloppy, Tory arrogance and a refusal to consult before announcing national policies. It pleased no-one and betrayed a refusal to work properly with anyone except his own party.
We stayed in all day and I worked hard rewriting my paper on a National Emergency Service.