Prejudice

What a strange thing prejudice is. Why do we create it? Is it because we are frightened of people with different ideas to ours and who are different from us?

Religion seems to create an enormous amount of prejudice. My son has been diagonsed with cancer and was quite pleased when religious people told him they would pray for him. He would say "any help is welcome!" although he is not necessaryily a believer. He just recognised that they wanted to show they cared and it was their way of showing that.

Race is another creator of prejudice. I know that when the West Indians came over after the war we needed them but there was prejudice - the notices in the windows of rooms to let was "No coloureds". Why was that? Probably because at that time they looked very strange to us "whites" and were friendlier and noisier than "us".

However when I was young (I am 75)I wanted a brown doll! Why because I thought they were pretty! I also loved a golly wog! Now we are not "allowed" to "love" these things!

To describe a brown colour I liked I said "nigger" brown. My grandchildren were horrified!!! Needless to say I would never repeat that! I was not thinking of people when I said it but the grandchildren took it that I was prejudiced!

Climate Change

I think it is time that we stopped all these very expensive Climate Change conferences! It would safe on "carbon footprints" too.

There are a great many people who do not believe we are responsible for Global warming - that it is natural process. We have been through the Ice Age and a Tropical climate before.

What we should be concentrating on is taking care of our World. Looking after our seas - keeping our World as clean as possible. Recycle so that we do not have to use landfill. Use renewable energy even if it does not seem economical (wind turbines) We do not want nuclear power, although it seems there might not be other options, because we would have to bury the waste, thus contaminating our earth.

Fossil fuels will run out eventually. Think how lucky we are that it is possible to create energy from natural sources. Water power is amazing - the seas - the rivers. Hydro power is the way to go!

Let's take care of our World and prepare for climate change - it might be inevitable - a natural progression that we cannot do anything about!

Education

I do not think people who have had a good education and are privileged should feel guilty. They have been given the ability to get things done. If they use it to make sure that they endeavour to improve the educational standards for the rest of us it is a good thing. They know what a good education is.

This will be an uphill task and will not be achieved over night but they will and can try.

As an example of how over protected children are:

On a day out near the sea I heard a girl say " They should put up railings". She did not think to herself that she should be careful. We are not showing children how to take care of themselves. Railings would have been inappropiate because it was built so that at high tide boats could use it.

Global Warming

I really cannot understand "Global Warming". There is a question mark about it because the climate is ever changing going through cycles - an ice age and a tropical age etc. We might not be responsible!

However I am not against being "Green". We should recycle our rubbish - we do not want to pollute our country with landfill. We do not want nuclear waste buried. We do not want to pollute the seas.

For energy we should be using sustainable energy, not because of global warming, but fossil fuels will eventually run out and they do pollute the air - remember smoke

Instead of banging on about "global warming" which is questionable just make sure we all take care of our environment.