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Thursday 24 March 2022

High Tree

 



The main Matlock road bridge was closed this morning. We were just in time to watch a riverbank tree being hauled up from the bank below onto the bridge where it was cut up into logs and smaller branches were fed through a chipper.

Quite impressive to watch people doing what they know how to do using the right equipment. It makes an enormous change from reading political drivel emitted by people who are as useful as earache. As we watched it was sobering to consider which group forms the legislators of all our UK governments.

Apart from men and machines, the job also required fossil fuels. What happens to jobs like this after Net Zero though? Maybe trained beavers will be used in future, or huge genetically engineered woodpeckers.

6 comments:

Sam Vega said...

Gradually, jobs like this will be neglected. The process of decline has already been underway for decades, and Net Zero will just accelerate it. In fact, Net Zero was probably invented so that we would accept further decline because grumbling about it or voting against it would mean you are a selfish climate-change denier or somesuch.

Tammly said...

Unless of course 'Net Zero' founders, which it will. The 'woke elites' can huff and puff as much as they like, but the lessons of covid will have to be learned,(that the useful third of the population who service everyones needs will have to be accommodated). They are still smarting over Brexit and they are going to smart a lot more.

Tammly said...

Mind you, I'm a big fan of woodpeckers a huge genetically engineered one would be cool!

A K Haart said...

Sam - I'm sure you are right. The pandemic seems to have pushed the decline forward quite a few years too. The clues are mounting up with a poor health service, poor education, dodgy infrastructure and increasingly untrustworthy elites.

Tammly - yes I think Net Zero will founder too. We don't have 24/7 green, non-nuclear energy available.

Tammly said...

But think of how much energy a huge genetically green woodpecker would have!

A K Haart said...

Tammly - and if it could be genetically engineered to replace aircraft...