It was that time of year again, when practically all of the people in the building industry journey down to London for the www.EcoBuild.co.uk Show. Having gone every year for the last 3 years, I had seen most companies before many times, and this time I was here for a seminar panelled by some pretty contraversial “environmentallists”.
The subject of the seminar was where will obtain our source of energy from for the foreseeable future.
Mark Lynas was one of the panellists, along with some journalists from New Scioentist magazinne.
Mark Lynas’s proposition was that we keep on digging all the minerals out of the earth, along with nuclear energy, and we should be just fine.
Once they had stopped pollutin our brains with all the drivel about how we have to go nuclear, I mustered up the courage to ask a question.
I proposed that we do not to go nuclear, as evidence has shown that plant based cellulose will be able to provide the energy we need, specifically from the hemp plant. Rudolph Diesel had designed the infamous deisel engine to run on hemp seed and vegetable oil is what I stated as my proof.
I was quickly ridiculed by Mr Lynas with a very stale comment about hwo the only time he heard about hemp was from his father who ranted abpout this fibre too much.
I later went to him to continue a question, to which he responded with an angry response, pretty much like dinasours that got destroyed in the last climate catastrophe, about a few million years ago. 
I left with a sigh, but I do not despair, as I had met several positive holistic individuals at this show.
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