Will the planet’s future be as bleak as they predict?
I REMEMBER when, at secondary school, a popular essay topic was on Automation and its effect on the future of mankind. We all dutifully reeled off what we saw were the obvious problems: people would no longer be required for many jobs, leading to very short or non-existent working weeks.
Yet 60 years later, I read that employment has reached a new record high. What happened? Well, obviously the nature of jobs has changed. Many jobs have developed which did not exist in those days, such as in IT and communications, together with huge changes in the hospitality sector. Things change, and we change with them.
How true will the gloomy predictions turn out to be? Who knows, we may discover that we cannot slow down climate change by any human means, and have to learn to live with it. We may by then have found an use for waste plastic. A vegan society may have stripped the Earth of edible plant matter, and animals will have to be reared for food again. Overpopulation may have been stemmed because nobody will know - or care - what gender they are.
And Brexit might have happened.
Bin collection service is a load of rubbish
I’VE never had a problem with my grey bin being collected until four weeks ago, when they failed to turn up.
I contacted refuse dept online and had a live chat but they couldn’t promise me when they would come to empty them. My husband contacted them directly and spoke to someone and they promised the person in charge would ring him back – which they didn’t – but they did state that if the bins were full, they would take away any bags that were not in the bin.
Hooray, now the bins have been emptied four weeks after they should have been, but alas they did not take the overflow bags which they promised they would. My husband rang them again and he was told it’s not their policy to take items that are not in the bin.
Do they really know what they are doing?
MPs must ignore the referendum result
OK, Gez Sharp (Letters, September 6) – well, everything you said about prorogation is just plain wrong.
Major did the same? I can find no references to this, so I guess it is made up? Fishing fleets were not decimated by the EU, that was down to over fishing by greedy UK fishermen. The coal industry was not shut down so Polish coal could be imported, Maggie Thatcher did that to curb union power, so to say that is to do with the EU is pure nonsense. Farm subsidies – exactly the same applies to all EU countries, so that’s a non-argument.
Of course we should ignore the referendum result, it was fraudulently obtained by the leavers’ Project Lie.
Our MPs should do their job and put the country first.