Real investment is needed. Photo: london rachel wikimedia commons.

• THE world existed long before money was ever invented, and yet government policies are all based on money. It’s short-sighted thinking!

Let’s face it, our binary intelligence, worsening by ever more sophisticated computer technology, works with on and off, thus distinguishing good from bad, rich from poor, etc. Yet it is people in the large band in the middle who work their socks off who get little or no credit.

Nature has no use for this kind of processing. It just “is”.

What does one do when climbing up a rock face there is a tiger below, and a tiger above, waiting for their meal? The human race is in just such a predicament. What does the climber do? I don’t think dualistic or robotic thinking will help in this situation.

All personal gains aside, policy-makers have to think outside of the box if our civilisation is to survive. The feudal system is outdated and yet, as R Buckminster Fuller once remarked, we are still in it. See what is happening all around us. Hundreds of dedicated scientists cannot all be wrong about the changes now happening in our planet. Mini steps like narrowing roads for pedestrians only elevates air pollution levels.

Huge long-term infrastructure projects backed by lobbyists, like HS2 or the nuclear Hinkley Point, become a wonderful gravy train for directors and advisers, but in various ways they do not address the immediate energy and emission problems that we have.
A huge leap forward would be made however if serious investment was made in wind and solar farms, sea waves, and hydrogen; going hand in hand with carbon-capture facilities. Compared with the massive infrastructure projects that the government invests in these would be considered bird feed.

Why is that not happening? The fossil fuel corporations still have loud and powerful voices.

Primavera Boman, NW1