Today is the 10th of June 2009. The underground workers are on strike for 48 hours. The effect on central London is alarming. The road system is clogged with traffic and even though people are walking and cycling to work it is clear that transport in London is at breaking point.
There is no lack of discussion. We are being told that oil and coal are non-renewables and that we must develop "sustainable systems" of energy. The discourse does not include people.
A city, any city, is extremely vulnerable to disruption. The electricity shuts down and nothing works, no lights, no heat, no escalators, no underground trains. People's behaviour must change and change in ways that favour survival...survival in a manner compatible with being human. Survival that means civilised as well.
After all, the dinosaurs became extinct. Did their underground train system cease to function?
Footsore
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