I Suffer Much Less Than Many Of

At A Time When It's Possible For Thirty People To Stand On The Top Of Everest In One Day, Antarctica Still Remains A Remote, Lonely And Desolate Continent. A Place Where It's Possible To See The Splendours And Immensities Of The Natural World At Its Most Dramatic And, What's More, Witness Them Almost Exactly As They Were, Long, Long Before Human Beings Ever Arrived On The Surface Of This Planet. Long May It Remain So.

When I Was A Boy In The 1930s, The Carbon Dioxide Level Was Still Below 300 Parts Per Million. This Year, It Reached 382, The Highest Figure For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years.

[w]hen We Look At The Graphs Of Rising Ocean Temperatures, Rising Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere And So On, We Know That They Are Climbing Far More Steeply Than Can Be Accounted For By The Natural Oscillation Of The Weather ... What People (must) Do Is To Change Their Behavior And Their Attitudes ... If We Do Care About Our Grandchildren Then We Have To Do Something, And We Have To Demand That Our Governments Do Something.

Television Of Course Actually Started In Britain In 1936, And It Was A Monopoly, And There Was Only One Broadcaster And It Operated On A License Which Is Not The Same As A Government Grant.

I Suppose Happiness Is Something One Enjoys, But I Suspect That Happiness Is Not A State But Rather A Transition.