Wet with more to follow

Well the rain eased and by Friday the flood plain water was subsiding.Although the ground is still waterlogged the water is draining which means my paws don't get too wet.

As I was walking down on the common it struck me that the main problem with humans is their detachment from nature. There has been an increased shift towards humans disconnecting from each other and from the planet they live on. Humans it seems know better than nature and spend time and effort trying to change nature, when in the long run it would be easier if they sort to change and work with nature. There will always be natural disasters, but humans should look towards their contributing to others through their contamination of the environment, deforestation and industrialisation. Take China, a vast country that through localised industrialisation has polluted many of it's rivers which were a source of life for both humans and nature.

Man's constant quest to find ways to produce with reduced production or material costs whilst maintaining a profit seems to be one of the biggest factors behind the global destruction of the planet.Outsourcing to Asia to save on wages has been a motivational force behind many of the companies in both the USA, the UK and Europe. The net result is that this creates in the outsourcing country a desire to have what other have got and the consumer loop is created and at what cost?

Us dogs don't go around trying to change the planet, rather we "go with the flow" of what nature offers. On the river Thames in the UK they built a barrier to prevent flooding in the upper Thames and London. They have also build along many of the margins that surround the lower Thames, which means that when prevailing conditions are right the Thames will be very high. In the past this would have meant localised flooding of the corridor land which was mainly marsh and wetland. When it is drained and built on the water must then go further up stream. Hence the Thames barrier to stop London flooding.

How's the New Year resolutions going? As this is the 21st day of January if you have been sticking at it, your habit should be changing or have changed. Replacing a habit with another more beneficial one will also speedup the change.

An incident at Heathrow airport clearly demonstrates that humans exist in many facets of their life on a knife edge. Thankfully there was no fatalities and save for the damage to the plane and skid marks on the grass, damage was minimal to the environment. In the storms last week a cargo ship started to loose it's deck cargo of sawn timber and then sank with fuel oil still onboard. The timber will be washed ashore, but will be of little use, the forest where it was cut is minus all those trees and there is still all the fuel oil onboard the sunken ship waiting to leak out and pollute the sea.

Whilst the government of the UK is careering from problem after problem I see that the presidential run for the White House is now in full swing. Why is it that humans in democratic countries elect their representatives and then take no further part in how that person on party runs the country. They seem to abdicate that responsibility and then complain when it all goes pear shape.

That's my view as a Boxer dog of advancing years. The answer is for humans to stop fighting nature and to start working with it. There maynot be as much profit in it short term but long term humans will have a better place to live and so will we animals.