Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee is a classic idiom with meaning to the effect that you need to realise what is going on in the world around you and indeed a call to arms.

Directed at teenagers it is becoming even more evident that adults are living in denial of many key real-world events.

Solar Power

The drive to reduce dependency on the use of fossil fuels has accelerated the development of solar power, from panels on buildings to solar farms and yet … the use of energy results in the output of heat. This will continue to add to global warming. Your average car is 75kW!

A side effect of global warming is an increase in sea temperature which releases more moisture into the atmosphere which generates more cloud cover which hides the sun and reduces the efficiency of solar panels. Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Electric Cars

Continuing on another front to reduce dependency on fossil fuels is adoption of electric cars. The car itself is clean in that it does not pollute… directly. Yet it is a 75kW heater and somehow the battery needs charging.

Power generation is moving to solar and wind renewables. Currently it is still mainly fossil fuel… gas. Then there’s the environmental cost of manufacturing the car itself. Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Electoral Reform in the UK

This is something everyone wants to see and has come to the fore as a result of the complete failure of parliament to successfully negotiate and agree EU withdrawal over 2 years.

At the time of writing only a few hundred people are deciding who could become the next Prime Minister of the UK. This reform went the wrong way however not for the first time in recent history… look up Gordon Brown PM.

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee.

 

There are many more cases but I suspect the reader is by now as bored as the author. Will someone with some power to do something… do something?

Probably not because there will be jobs lost, economies failed and riots!