“The world is in the cusp of a post-antibiotic era” claim some headlines. Crisis is increasing day by day and day after day. We are living in a “Climate OF change”. But of course the majority rules - that is the democratic way.

Pembrokeshire’s majority are fossil thinkers. They support fossil fuel with a consistent majority and regularly reject responsibility within their own communities for making changes to help redress that choice. Turbines are seen as intrusive, unsightly, bad for tourism. The list goes on and every point of view holds credibility for its proponents. Tick tock says the turbine clock.

The climate OF change brings not only extremes of weather. There are far wider consequences. A drought here or there leads to movement of populations, changes in the balance that had been stable. Stability degenerates into instability. Minority become majority. Enforcement of law and control of societies becomes the strengthening response of governments.

Tick tock says the turbine clock.

A local community of villages in north Pembrokeshire had a plan to erect twin turbines - large ones near Llanfyrnach that would be noticed.

Not intrusive enough to damage the National Parks of Preseli or the coast, but powerful enough to show we care. A new landmark for sensibility. It was a statement of community responsibility; evolution beyond fossil thinking and into greener potentials which combined to generate both electricity and shared income for the hosts and those around. It would be taking responsibility for mindlessly flicking on the light switch or pressing the remote. But those people were a minority. The majority are not yet interested, still in the passing mind-set of fossil thinking. The climate OF change has not brought them into crisis yet. Tick tock says the turbine clock.

The unanimous vote against the twin turbine proposals advised that smaller dreams might find better reception.

So the same minority adjusted their proposals to suit better the majority taste. A single smaller turbine that could project to produce a large amount of income for the area in a 5 kilometre radius of the turbine’s location.

Welsh ministers claim to be encouraging this type of responsibility for communities self-generating both power and income, for communities taking greater responsibility. But not in Pembrokeshire and not when comfortable lives are nudged into accountability for their own hungers and appetites.

And they are still the majority.

Planning denied. Tick tock says the turbine clock.

The Earth calls louder, year upon year. “Awaken humanity”

she says. Restrain your hungers and appetites, it is time for the people to change again; all the people. “I shall get louder” she says. The winds shall blow stronger, the rain shall fall harder, the sun shall shine brighter and hotter. “You will hear me” she says. And indeed, when we are the ones affected by the crisis we shall. The minority shall become the majority.

Pembrokeshire’s reluctance to take responsibility in this season of need, for this time of change, for the generation in which we must evolve, has not yet arrived. The minority encourage whilst the majority bumble on lost in fading and outdated fossil thinking.

Tick tock says the turbine clock.

Michael Bossom

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