Global warming is a bigger threat to our town than Brexit
I WAS very pleased to see that the work on the long-derelict Elizabeth Mill, in Reddish, has finally begun.
The conversion of the mill, and its site, into 150 apartments and 50 houses will be another landmark achievement in the regeneration of our borough.
When the financial crisis hit Britain’s economy in 2008 and the banks had to be supported with £800 billion of public money, it looked as if Stockport’s bid for regeneration was doomed. But nothing could have been further from the truth.
Stockport proved to be both enterprising and resilient. It has weathered the storm and continues to move forward with great purpose.
Unfortunately, some financial commentators think the cost of Brexit over the next 20 years may well turn out to be of a similar order to the financial collapse a decade ago.
Let us hope that this does not transpire but even in this worst case scenario, Stockport has proven that it can ride such setbacks if it is forced to.
Brexit anyway, for me, even if it comes with a multi-billion pound price tag is nothing more than a sideshow which the people of Stockport would do well to shrug off with nonchalant indifference.
The real game in town, the real challenge for every British town and city, is a world which is heating up. Last year was globally the hottest on record. This year is shaping up to be the second hottest.
Some experts think that places like the Middle East in the coming years will become uninhabitable. By the end of this century, half of the Iberian peninsula is expected to have become a dessert.
In tomorrow’s hotter world, whole nations of desperate people could well be on the move.
Brexit will do little to stem that tide of people but limiting our consumption of fossil fuels would make all the difference.
Stockport made the right judgement on Brexit and now it needs to demonstrate leadership to other British towns and cities on the existential threat to humanity of climate change, by curbing the over-reliance on the car culture. John Tyers Marple magnetic fields.
We are surrounded by them 24 hours, seven days a week day and night, you can’t escape them, from your radio’s and TV sets to phones, computers, radio transmissions from taxis, police cars, ambulance and aircraft control towers plus much more.
Add to this our constant use of domestic general electrical appliances giving off magnetic impulses these could be affecting our health.
If these waves can penetrate metal, brick, and concrete they can certainly penetrate our bodies and who knows what this daily bombardment is doing to us both physically and mentally. Sara Moor Shaw Heath