Apologies - I've completely failed to write my original in a way that couldn't be taken personally....reohn2 wrote: ↑17 Mar 2024, 5:29pmMy personal circumstances a) I have a severely disabled wife who can't "move under her own power" and needs a wheelchair for anything but short walks so we need a car to move around,do the shopping and offer her some semblance of normalitycycle tramp wrote: ↑17 Mar 2024, 4:11pmI think we need to be the change we wish to see in our society.
We could be the examples to others that by moving under our own power, growing and harvesting our own food and perhaps energy, and through our support of our local businesses we can bring around positive changes and empowered
b)the harvesting of my own food from such a small garden as we have wouldn't be worth the effort,or desirable for me as a full time carer.I'm no gardener nor ever have been.
c)I do support local businesses where possible.
Last protest march was one I organised against the Iraq war in 2001(?).without having to go on protest marches
I'm coming around to that way of thinking,politics has been "gamed" in favour of the rich to the n th degree....Sadly - for me, any type of political intervention to solve our current issues is doomed. The government (by which I mean the civil service, and their ideas, the lobbyists, and the special interests groups and their view of the world) will always get in.
...there are many reasons why people can't do all or any of the above - from disabilities, as you've mentioned to living in high rise flats, or lack of access and things like that...
...at this stage we return to the 10% paradigm... if 10% of those would could, would.... then we could change everything in a handful of years...
..case in point- rats. Having chickens means that I attract rats... however rats use sight to detect preditors but smell to detect food - if we were to plant our town centres with lemon balm, lavender and other strongly smelling plants - not only would we make our town centres more attractive, but also reduce rat incidents....