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Fossil fuel fast
There are some people who can think up amazing ideas. Like me. I’m constantly bothered by eager Idea Bats carrying great concepts for books, trilogies and Game of Thronesesque series.
However my friend William Essex is definitely the maestro at having great ideas.
May I undermine that immediately by sniping that actually ideas are common and easy to have: what’s bloody hard is heaving any one Great Idea into reality, whether it’s a book about the Earth Organism joining a protest march or a terrific notion about fossil fuels.
So I’m going to enthuse about William’s terrific notion about fossil fuels because I think maybe this one might make a difference.
You can see William’s original notion here in the article A Day Without Oil, Anybody?
So. What he’s talking about is a one-day fast of fossil fuels. As in: more usually you fast from food — you don’t eat for 12 hours or 24 hours and this can seriously improve your health.
In this scenario you fast from using fossil fuels. You make sure you don’t use them for one day. You don’t use the car but use buses or trains (admittedly, good luck with the latter). Although they mostly use fossil fuels, the amount of carbon burned by public transport is significantly less than you driving into work. Or maybe you just don’t go to work for a day because…
