I am feeling so bloody irritable!

GrannyGravy13

MayBee70

We never have the sort of flooding we have now…

1953, Canvey Island and S E Coast, horrendous floods 53 fatalities.

There have always been floods, now with social media and everyone having camera phones people are more aware, or more to the point bombarded with doom and gloom at the end of their fingertips…

I can remember seeing pictures of that in the newspapers when I was a child. The Low Countries were flooded too.
The flood resulted in the deaths of 1,836 people in the Netherlands.

We do need to build defences, of course. And stop building on flood plains - hundreds of houses are planned near here on a flood plain. Stupidity.

Well, I suppose we could ask the body responsible for flood management in the U.K. to stop building defences, or maintain existing ones as unnecessary😄.

And tell those suffering from recent catastrophic flooding in Germany. Spain, Italy, USA countries in Africa, Australia etc, that it is nothing new and certainly not getting any worse.

Global warming is a fact, it is happening at an ever increasing rate.

A few posters have mentioned perspective.
I think that is how I look at life as a whole[not meaning anyone is wrong at all for feeling irritable or whatever about things. It happens to us all from time to time].

I always think I cannot begin to possibly know in reality, if there is less flooding now. Or less war deaths. Or less killings or whatever.
Or more.

But flooding is nothing new.
A quick goo gle at least, shows that.
And see my link above.

Not sure if the amount or severity around the world is correctly measured or not.
Maybe there is more flooding closer to home at the moment.
For all I know there could be a whole lot less in some others of the 206 Countries?

Actually we are spending more on flood defence now than we have ever done.

Because of global warming, there is more energy in the atmosphere, and higher and more intense rain fall as a result. Couple that with the rising sea levels and land sinking in the south and it doesn’t take much imagination to realise that maybee70 is indeed correct.

1952 Lynton and Lynmouth in Devon. Floods claimed 34 lives.

MayBee70

We never have the sort of flooding we have now…

1953, Canvey Island and S E Coast, horrendous floods 53 fatalities.

There have always been floods, now with social media and everyone having camera phones people are more aware, or more to the point bombarded with doom and gloom at the end of their fingertips…

Whitewavemark2

allira thank you for your posts😊😊

You're welcome 🌍

Are you feeling giddy yet? 😁

Claremont

Oreo

So many older people, especially women say they feel helpless or frustrated about many aspects of life today.
It’s part of the ageing process as I bet they didn’t feel like that 30 or 40 years ago.

NO, it has nothing to do with the ageing process, certainly not in my case, and I guess not in WvMk2 either.

Of course it has everything to do with the fact that GN has a mainly old membership.
Bet there was none of this gloom and doom thinking from anyone 30 years ago.
Not that everyone older gets too gloomy but many do.
Interestingly enough not just about rolling news and SM, tho they don’t help, but I remember old aunts in the 1970’s being that way and bemoaning the present day and world events.

Whitewavemark2

So now apparently I’m irritated because of my low social status, and lack of prestige!! 😄😄😄.

Well WWM2 at least everyone has made you laugh even if it wasn't intended 😄

allira thank you for your posts😊😊

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floods

That may be true. Will see what I can find.

Meanwhile, regarding wars

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_wars

We never have the sort of flooding we have now…

sassenach512

Me too WW we seem to be living under a dark cloud. Every time we turn on the news it's something else horrible and depressing going on in the world, there's no end to it

Out of interest. Mine perhaps.

If we didnt turn on the news, if we didnt switch on our keyboards,
what is our own life like?
better or worse than previously[not counting health woes, being a widow etc].

Mine is essentially same as always.

That is my first point.
Totally accept that may not be same as for others, fair enough.

2nd point -
World news - and here I may be wrong
I remember NI being on the news constantly when I was growing up. Starvation in Africa. Seemed like planes carshing freuquently, volcanoes erupting[barely remember the last volcano to have made the news], major earthquakes in several places, etc.
To my mind[could be wrong], not sure the world feels worse than it did then?

MayBee70

I think it's down to being old enough to see so many mistakes being made and no one learning from them. It etches away at any optimism one has when young...

Probably this.

And when we were young perhaps we trusted "Our Olders and Betters" until we found out they were younger and no better.

I think it's down to being old enough to see so many mistakes being made and no one learning from them. It etches away at any optimism one has when young...

Oreo

So many older people, especially women say they feel helpless or frustrated about many aspects of life today.
It’s part of the ageing process as I bet they didn’t feel like that 30 or 40 years ago.

NO, it has nothing to do with the ageing process, certainly not in my case, and I guess not in WvMk2 either.

I think I could cope with all of the bad things happening if it wasn’t for global warming, something that a lot of people want us to ignore because net zero doesn’t seem to fit in with their agenda ( added to which there is an American president who has no interest in the environment and would be drilling for oil everywhere if allowed to). I’ve worried about things happening in the world at certain times, things that I felt there would never be an end to…IRA mainland bombing, AIDS but realised that these things did come to an end ( or the danger was mitigated thanks to science…another thing that Trump has no time for) and me worrying about it made no difference. But, when it comes to global warming that is when I worry for my grandchildren, because we can see it happening all around us and if nothing is done now it will be they that will suffer, not me because I’ll be long gone. For those why say young people don’t bother with politics well, Alastair Campbell has been visiting schools and talking to young people. He says they are frustrated by the way that older people ignore such things and are far more clued up than we give them credit for. He has written a book called, I think, So What Can I Do, which imo all young people should have access to.So I’m hoping that giving 16 year olds the vote will make politicians look more to the future, not just trying to get elected on current issues eg lowering tax. Awful as it is in many ways I do think that China are doing a lot of research environment wise ( I need to find out more about that though) even though they also contribute greatly to global warming ( and have never been made to pay for unleashing covid into the world ).

Thanks Allira

GrannyGravy13

Brilliant Allira

If we went out for a meal with DH's Astronomy Club, they sang this 😀
It makes you realise just how insignificant we are. I sometimes wonder what a peaceful alien, looking down on Earth, would think.

"What a stupid lot, given that beautiful planet in the Goldilocks Zone, and there they are, intent on destroying it and each other".

Sorry, back to gloom and doom!

Brilliant Allira

Kate1949

'people are happy'. Not everyone is.

Apologies. Most people are happy, see good all round.

I've a happy optimistic person, however I don't watch the news, TV on is background noise. I read The Economist, typically not unpleasant.

For you, Whitewave:

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

There's no doubt the world is in chaos with global warming very worrying. All man made problems.

When I step out each day and see the Welsh hills near where I live and the trees and the river nearby I know that the earth is still beautiful and let nature wash away for a while all the tragic things that are happening but I know sometimes I feel futile as I can't do much to change things and the people who can don't.