The Government has advised that people should avoid making unnecessary short car journeys today to reduce the formation of ozone.

We’re in the warmest April recorded in Britain, three degrees above the long-term mean.

Frightening really isn’t an adequate adjective.

Just a small piece of good news for a Saturday morning:

Modbury, a small Devon town, has decided to ban plastic bags – unilaterally.

Things like this will not of course save the planet, but millions and millions of small actions like this could make a dent in the problem, and help convince governments to convert rhetoric to action – which they are going to have to admit they need to take.

In many parts of America, even drying your clothes outside is banned – you have to use up electricity inside, even if the temperature outside would fry an egg. And as for solar panels or wind turbines… forget it.

Surburbia really is, when you think about it, deeply, deeply weird – not to mention incredibly snobbish (since class has a lot to do with these rules, as the linked article makes clear).