Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette

While world leaders continue to play 'russian roulette' with climate change, my attention was drawn to a recent article in The Sunday Times describing a growing movement known as Transition Towns. As an aside, the article highlights how Dr Dave Wilks, a climate change activist, has hit on a new way to describe the warming of the earth's atmosphere:

'it's equivalent to nearly five Hiroshima bombs exploding per second.'

Definitely attention grabbing but back to the article and transition towns. The Transition Town movement was started by Rob Hopkins when he was working in Kinsale, County Cork. Transition towns are all about creating local innovative changes as a response to looming climate change. Apparently the movement is growing rapidly and individuals and groups from 176 places have now registered to become Transition Towns. The Transition Town website has an array of useful information on what communities can do and how to do it.

Kinsale is the only town in Ireland that has registered as a transition town. It would be great to hear from someone involved as to how things are progressing.