Posted on 03/17/2020 2:49:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As the last light of the late-winter sunset illuminates her suburban back garden, Rachel Ingrams is looking at the sky and pondering how long we have left.
Her hands shielded from the gusts of February air by a well-worn pair of gardening gloves, Rachel carefully places tree spinach and scarlet pimpernel seeds into brown plastic pots.
Over the past year, Rachel, 45, has invested in a greenhouse and four bright blue water butts, and started building a raised vegetable patch out of planks of wood. It's all part of an effort to rewild her garden and become as close to self-sufficient as she can, while society continues to function.
Within the next five to 10 years, she says, climate change is going to cause it to fall apart. "I don't see things lasting any longer than that."
"I find the more I do it, the less anxious I am," she says. "It's better than just sitting in the living room looking at the news and thinking, 'Oh God, climate change is happening, what do we do?'"
Rachel is unsure about how much to tell her three daughters. "I don't say to them that in five years we won't be here," she tells me. "But they do accept that food will be difficult to find."
Every six weeks, she takes her two youngest daughters on an 450-mile round trip from their home in Sheffield to an organic farm in South Wales, where they learn how to forage for food.
But she's not at all confident her efforts will make much difference, in the long run. "I don't think we can save the human race," she says, "but hopefully we can leave the planet with some organic life."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
So when those kids are 10-15 years older, and society still stands, will they realize mom was a complete crackpot?
Nuts, these people are all nuts!
Hoping for utopia
L8r
Rachel’s chances are worse than mine and I’m 65. I don’t believe this #FakeScience
Um, what? I suppose if one has to forage a farm would be an ideal spot.
Bright blue water butts? Well, it’s not coronavirus, but she might want to go get that checked out.
The article has a large discussion by Prof. Michael Mann — he of the ‘Hockey Stick’ graph — and HE is calling people like Rachel Ingrams crazy. The revolution eats itself, I guess?
Yes they are. It always seems to be 10 years. How many different times have people said 10 years? Haven’t the scum bags been saying 10 more years, for about the last 30 or 40 years?
Christmas finally came for that crowd. The overnight, indefinite shutdown of vast swathes of the (first) world economy is their dream come true.
She has a generalized anxiety disorder. Poor kids.
Yes. You would think that this crowd of crazies would be loudly insisting that we do nothing about COVID-19. Because, with any luck, it will kill millions of us. Less pressure on the earth. Less climate change. It might help preserve some semblance of organic life on the planet, you know?
But, of course, these lunatics are criticizing the government for not doing enough to save us from the virus. And criticizing the government for not making sure all the stores are well stocked with toilet paper and whatnot.
Irrational people.
hope this is true and they cancel COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland in November. time for Nations to follow Trump and pull out of the UN Paris gloBULL warming scam:
TWEET: Sam Coates, Deputy Political Editor Sky News UK
ICYMI: Both @EdConwaySky and I hearing from sources yesterday that it might be better to postpone COP
17 Mar 2020
One more thing
First signs of worry about whether pushing ahead with the COP climate summit in November is now a good idea. Massive global effort needed to make success; but now attention will understandably be diverted.
Some asking is it better to scale back?
Or just cancel?
16 Mar 2020
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1239681994184933377
After this coronavirus reaction, I easily see the government giving out panic demands like no driving to save the world and I see people easily falling in line. Americans are big time followers.
And the blood thirsty media laps it up in order to spread yet more fear over an insecure and uninformed population.
So, she is driving 450 miles, burning fossil fuels, just to forage for food?
Hypocrite!
“Nuts,these people are all nuts!”
I say they are nuckin futs.
What are you talking about? This is all gonna be blamed on climate change, well Trump too I might add.
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