zero sum game

Of all the things to be doing when slicing a pizza this evening, I was
pondering was week's giant oil repository fire last week close to Luton.

My initial reaction last week was quite naturally shock at the scale of
the fire. And to worry about what the effect of the massive cloud of
oily soot might be on London.

Afterwards I remember thinking how it was horrific that in the space of
a few days vast amounts of CO2 would enter the atmosphere further
accelerating global warming. Forget 'march of the penguins', the
penguins will be lucky if they have any ice sheets left to march on soon
enough.

But the penny dropped tonight. It's not like I often think about oil
repositories whilst slicing pizza; sometimes things just pop into your
head. And so it was. I realised that actually nothing had really
changed; the oil had burnt... as it had always been destined to do - in
our cars and in our planes. All that was different was the when and where.

A rampaging oil fire burns on our motorways and runways, many times over.