Like several regular readers of this site, I was politically active at the age that Greta Thunberg is now. No allowance was made for us, nor should it have been. And I know a number of her contemporaries politically, mostly but not exclusively on the Left. Mercifully, they are not at all like her. But they do not receive the attention that she does.
It is also worth pointing out that boys are quite routinely placed on the autistic spectrum in order to diagnose and treat their political opinions and interests as an illness, not in order to elevate them to the status of sages. Of course, there is also a strong class element here. Yet, across the spectrum that they are redefining, they understand that they are a golden generation, coming of age in an age of miracles and wonders. The age of Chandrayaan-2.
With the China that has recently landed on the dark side of the Moon, which plans to mine helium-3 there in order to fuel fusion power here, and which will soon investigate the conditions for terraforming Mars, India is leading the world on this and so many other fronts, against the enemies of the material advancement of the great mass of humanity, with everything that follows from that advancement and with everything that is necessary in order to secure it.
We demolish our reliable coal-fired power stations, then we reopen the mines in order to make the steel for our unreliable wind turbines. But the rising powers scarcely notice as they act on their appreciation that life is the geological force that shapes the Earth, and that the emergence of human cognition fundamentally transforms the biosphere, not least by the uniquely human phenomenon of economic growth, so that human mastery of nuclear processes is beginning to create resources through the transmutation of elements, enabling us, among other things, to explore space and to exploit the resources of the Solar System. Vladimir Vernadsky and Krafft Ehricke will yet have their day.
So I am delighted for the Indian space programme. But India continues to receive aid from Britain. We do need the specification in the Statute Law that the United Kingdom's aid to any given country be reduced by the exact cost of any space programme, or of any nuclear weapons programme, or of any nuclear submarine programme, or of any foreign aid budget of that country's own, but with the money thus saved remaining within the budget of the Department for International Development, and with the 0.7 per cent target still resolutely intact.
It is also worth pointing out that boys are quite routinely placed on the autistic spectrum in order to diagnose and treat their political opinions and interests as an illness, not in order to elevate them to the status of sages. Of course, there is also a strong class element here. Yet, across the spectrum that they are redefining, they understand that they are a golden generation, coming of age in an age of miracles and wonders. The age of Chandrayaan-2.
With the China that has recently landed on the dark side of the Moon, which plans to mine helium-3 there in order to fuel fusion power here, and which will soon investigate the conditions for terraforming Mars, India is leading the world on this and so many other fronts, against the enemies of the material advancement of the great mass of humanity, with everything that follows from that advancement and with everything that is necessary in order to secure it.
We demolish our reliable coal-fired power stations, then we reopen the mines in order to make the steel for our unreliable wind turbines. But the rising powers scarcely notice as they act on their appreciation that life is the geological force that shapes the Earth, and that the emergence of human cognition fundamentally transforms the biosphere, not least by the uniquely human phenomenon of economic growth, so that human mastery of nuclear processes is beginning to create resources through the transmutation of elements, enabling us, among other things, to explore space and to exploit the resources of the Solar System. Vladimir Vernadsky and Krafft Ehricke will yet have their day.
So I am delighted for the Indian space programme. But India continues to receive aid from Britain. We do need the specification in the Statute Law that the United Kingdom's aid to any given country be reduced by the exact cost of any space programme, or of any nuclear weapons programme, or of any nuclear submarine programme, or of any foreign aid budget of that country's own, but with the money thus saved remaining within the budget of the Department for International Development, and with the 0.7 per cent target still resolutely intact.
Another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration. After nearly 30 years of suggestion, speculation, and even a sort of preparation, I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham. The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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