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David Levy – Where We Are, and Where To Go? – Aug 23

Unless environmentalists confront the authorities and businesses with the relevant questions in order to elicit answers that contain solutions, environmentalists will be focusing constantly on the blame culture.   That only results in replies full of avoidance and fraudulent answers.

At this moment in time that is all we are getting from our investigative journalists and from NGO platforms.

Even the legal bodies we once trusted in are milking the system via the blame culture.   Some of their targets are so close to being bankrupt that it appears that if legally challenged the financial penalties will denude their coffers even more.

It’s difficult to defend this thinking, and even more so when the buck stops with us, you and I.   The Water Industry is a classic example of this situation.   It has been the centre of massive under-investment and crass payments to investors which has left the skeleton of the industry with little ability to meet its obligations under the 2021 Environment Act.

I sit in my chair at home frustrated with media programmes supposedly dealing with adverse situations, and the people in the dock never have to answer a searching question.   They only have to parry ‘blame’ questions and statements without ever realistically having to solve the problems.

It is either by design that this is so, or our questioners do not understand their brief — only the question: who is to blame?

On a personal level, I observe most environmentalists are content either to blame, or in a smaller way wish to clear up the mess.   For example, my neighbour does a daily litter pick after the school children leave their mess on his doorstep on the way to school.   This is a good example of what their teachers should be aware of, and be responding to as an educational necessity.

I have spent a percentage of my life following the blame game, and it has led nowhere of significance and could be seen as wasted endeavour.   I look at the results of focusing on the blame game and that is the conclusion I have come to.   I now concentrate on trying to get those involved to focus on joint, co-operative solutions where all can reap the benefits of change.

I would ask you all to evaluate your own efforts, and to think and let me know how best I can spend my time more fruitfully.

David Levy