The Green World Trust have been in existence for
about 6 years. We see our principal task to be that
of promoting public awareness of the true nature of
the major threats to the survival of the human race,
the need to change the way we live and use these precious
resources in order to have a real future, and the
ways we can support each other in making this change.
We want to encourage groups to start everywhere,
without people being prevented through limited resources
of time or money. We support the “Transition
Towns” initiative as a means of bringing about
the lifestyle changes which will make it possible
to re-introduce a more localized economy and cope
with the reduction in available energy. We support
the intentions of Transition Towns while not subscribing
to their view of anthropogenic climate change.
Whilst much of our work is of global importance,
we are also very involved with the imminent and long-term
problems of the local area. We firmly support the
proposal to construct a Severn Tidal Energy Reef between
Minehead and Aberthaw. This could be used to protect
the lowlands from flooding and the coastal areas from
freak tides, and would have the capability of providing
as much electrical generating power as 4-5 nuclear
power stations. All this would be without the need
for the use of the dwindling supply of Uranium, without
the need to rebuild every 30 years, and without producing
“dirty” waste material that has the potential
to create great and long lasting pollution.
Other works that we have been involved with include
the presentation to the Government of an integrated
transport scheme for the whole of England and a new-build
housing plan to increase the number of low-rent, affordable
homes. The latter scheme was taken up by the housing
minister at the time and put into operation by several
Councils.