What Kati Did Next: Do your bit — put your bins out

Reporter: Kati Williamson
Date published: 23 September 2008


I put my bins out today. We all did on our street. Green, blue, brown and grey. I put them out in a downpour we’ve come to know as summer and it got me thinking.

Is this what they call climate change? The powers-that-be were talking scorching summers and deathly cold winters, not the dirge of grey and wet we’re getting.

Is this the weather system to come? I really hope not and this is where my bins come into it.

Surely it’s our responsibility and wouldn’t it make you proud if we took it, to work towards making this planet a greener place to live. One that may actually survive the next thousand years, because if reports are to be believed we won’t.

It’s easy for us to kick back in our ivory towers, burning oil like its going out of fashion, which incidentally it is, while the world suffers immeasurable damage by the pillaging of natural resources.

Evolutionists say that we, the human race, are here by the slimmest of chances via an incredibly slim chance.

By removing the very materials which keep our earth ticking over, by burning them, by chopping them down and by fishing them to extinction, it makes sense that we are going to see dramatic changes on our planet.

So what does that mean for us? Right now in our country alone there are thousands of people cleaning their homes of floods that have once again ripped through their villages and towns leaving desperation in its wake.

People who without insurance, apparently they’re uninsurable, have to try to rebuild their lives from scratch. They’ll probably have to do it again next year.

When will the governments of the world put climate change at the top of the agenda? Surely they can see what is happening right outside their doors.

If we don’t deal with the icebergs melting, the sea levels rising and species dying off at a rate of knots then there won’t be countries to house nuclear weapons, there won’t be seas to float our enormous armed forces on and there certainly won’t be land available for a housing crisis.

So it’s time we all did our bit. Which brings me back to my bins. I put them out today. We all did on our street. It makes you proud. Well, it does me anyway.


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