The Balancing Act

There’s a parallel being drawn
between the abolition of slavery in 1833
and the fight against carbon emissions now

Wilberforce – one man
took on the vested interests in Britain
with his speech in 1799 at the House of Commons
but indirectly he was talking
to those in the West Indies, the USA
and the rest of the world

Slavery finally became illegal
in Britain in 1833

A good story
few would disagree

Today the vested interests of the likes of Exxon
are huge
and only a small part of their hydro carbons
can be burnt
if we are to keep our world
as it is

It took Wilberforce 44 years
to get his law through in Britain

A civil war in the US
and the rhetoric of Lincoln
to get slavery banned in the US

We could all be saved now
in our fightagainst Climate Change
by the rapidly rising growth of PVs
but otherwise

it doesn’t seem we have the luxury of Wilberforce’s 44 years
to swop to solar, the wind & the waves
and save our climate

A balancing act
a clean safe future
v the cheque flows to the vested interests
as before