Who knew – Birmingham had its own human gas chamber
– in full public view and very shiny.
Just at the point where my shite monitor for this
Thursday’s general election went off the scale, I stumble on this open secret.
Yes – as the UK shuffles to another vote - this one to decide who shapes the
sloppy BREXIT turd (the Conservatives who shat it or the Labour Party who
failed to divert it down an appropriate sewer) something way more bizarre is
happening in the UK. And we all missed it.
Global environmental devastation is staring every living,
breathing thing right in the kisser and no one in power in either the UK
or the US seems focused on that amidst current chaos. But, it seems, there is an anti-programme.
It's hard to assimilate the news that human-fart-in-a-lift
Donald Trump pulled the world’s biggest polluter out of the world’s most
important and hard won climate agreement. The Paris Accord – the deal most
likely to help mitigate global environmental carnage, is now minus America but I
began to suss what may be going on.
Unable to avoid travelling home via Birmingham New
Street train station, I was again struck by how hideous it is to be inside the
big new, deceptively silvery mushroom. In case you missed the pleasure, some twonk
placed a huge metal cap over this very heavily used West Midlands rail hub
in the name of re-development. So, the enclosed area where people shop and have
coffee and wait for trains basically fills up with diesel fumes all day from
the trains below. I presume neither the architects nor the idiots who gave it
planning permission use it often because, once inside the dome, you may as well
be sucking on an exhaust pipe.
I’ve spoken to staff there on a number of occasions.
Initially there was a suspicion that I’d arrived on a random day when something
had gone dreadfully wrong with vents. I’ve been there several times since and
it’s been the same, though some days may be worse than others depending on the
temperature. One worker told me he often has stinging eyes, a sore throat and
headaches. How long before he has 'dead'?
It is - if you think about it – an unofficial human gas
chamber. Probably because we are not killing ourselves quite efficiently enough with general
pollution. Let’s face it UK premature deaths from pollution are only running at
about 40,000 per year.
Then we have the government’s keenness on fracking.
I’ve mentioned before the irony of the UK government giving the go-ahead to french
fracking firms when fracking is illegal in France. Clearly the French like
their children healthy and alive.
Britain’s failure to replace and plant trees in
sufficient numbers to offset ecological damage was the subject of two blogs
ago. We are also still giving planning permission in areas of natural beauty
and wildlife importance – for ecologically damaging open cast mining - e.g. Druridge
Bay in Northumberland.
Our cities – choked with diesel fumes are just open toxic
hazards.
In blog 220 Mexico
v Trump & why America is literally breaking – I outlined the madness of
the US having a head of EPA who does not believe in protecting the environment.
Pruitt, ex-governor of Oklahoma – increased fracking and subsequently presided
over an unprecedented increase in serious local earthquakes.
But maybe the UK Crazies have a plan they didn’t
mention. Having failed to control migration sufficiently to placate the politically constipated colonialist Brexiteers and neo-imperialists they had to do something. Add the prospect of hordes of ex-pats thronging home when
they can no longer get free healthcare abroad – the government is going to deal
with an underfunded health service – also under-employment, increased homelessness etc etc etc – by allowing
pollution to kill off as many of the people who already live here as possible. The West Midlands Gas Chamber will help up the numbers. Maybe there are other 'projects' hiding in full view?
Sneaky.
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