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\"cartoon<\/a>Does snow make for a kinder country?\u00a0 It was noticeable how life changed when a fair amount of snow created complete disruption.\u00a0 (We can argue about whether we need to spend a lot of money to make our infrastructure snow proof – this might be necessary with climate change.)\u00a0 But for 48 hours the whole of the UK ground to a complete standstill.\u00a0 The sense of change and community and a kinder country was very noticeable.\u00a0 Churches threw open their doors to the homeless.\u00a0 Businesses and people donated food and clothes (a person in my homegroup saw this in action as a volunteer).\u00a0 Hotels through open their doors to stranded travellers and again supermarkets donated food.\u00a0 Neighbours rallied around one another.<\/p>\n

The biggest change was on the roads and streets.\u00a0 The streets were reclaimed by children and pedestrians.\u00a0 A video on line showed a man snow boarding down a street in Glasgow.\u00a0 The reason for all this was a complete absence of traffic.\u00a0 And how refreshing it was.\u00a0 I saw lots of people walking back from the shops with their shopping.\u00a0 It even took a few days here for the traffic to get back to normal.<\/p>\n

The question is could we replicate this in the future?\u00a0 Even electric cars do not totally solve the problems of pollution and excessive traffic.\u00a0 Of course there were drawbacks, the shops were almost all closed apart from the supermarkets that were fast running out of food.\u00a0 The snow made us see the precariousnesses of life.\u00a0 Our dependency on supply lines at the moment dominated by fossil fuels was plain to see.\u00a0 It would be good if we could reduce our dependence on the motor car.\u00a0 Life would be so much better.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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