A Free Spirit. Betty Shine
were aware of the dangers we could face if industries went ahead with certain money-saving projects, but they decided to turn a blind eye. Instead, dangerous decisions have been made by people who have wormed their way into the inner sanctums of politics, simply to feed their own greed.
I find it laughable the way in which environmental issues are addressed in Parliament. If politicians make any useful contribution at all, it almost always carries a rider, which is that it will be dealt with in due course – anything from five to ten years hence or more. In that time we could all be dead! In this day and age, when technology is fast-moving and computers are out of date after only a few months, surely the people who govern should get a move on and not sit on the issues that can endanger lives?
Environmental issues should be at the forefront of regular Parliamentary debates, but instead they are put on the back burner. Many politicians are family men and women, and it is their children who will suffer. You would think that this alone would spur them on to defy opposition to any other dangerous issues that will affect the environment in which we live. But it seems that few are interested.
History repeats itself again and again, and we are told that governments have learned from the past. I fear they have not. You only have to consider the quotation at the beginning of this chapter, and note that Uncle Vanya
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