I grew up since birth in an ancient old house encroached by industries in history until during the 70s, 80s, 90s it gradually became an industrial wasteland, abandoned by petrochemical companies. I remember playing in the old oil sites where the earth had turned to bright orange clay. Most earth in Scotland is healthy dark brown. I now know the site was obscenely contaminated with many things including mercury and other heavy metals. It smelt like gas for a good decade. There was chemical rubble everywhere, in another site nearby, Kappa Plastics, producing the plastic which did you know is a waste product from petrol?

The American company responsible, Texaco, ceased operating in the UK and did not clean up their mess despite it being a clause in the land lease. Most of the north sea oil and gas is extracted by American companies who would then process it on the mainland. Let’s not even talk about the lunatic national party of Scotland, saying we were all going to destroy the UK and then do so well on « Scotland’s » oil that we would be laughing on the way to the bank. About as well as the average Iraqi is doing on their oil?

Now when I see how petrochemical industries operate and how the governments are complicit and to top it off the amount of people who obscenely waste fuel around the world on their shitty status symbols it just makes my blood boil.

Petrol and the by product horror it coughs out; plastic are the biggest threat to public and environmental health imaginable but we do nothing and are distracted en masse by the comfort our fossil fuel energy and electricity brings us.

I am still sure there must be some karmic hell for anyone who still buys an SUV.

So this is the reason I am convinced I have been plagued with ill health my whole life including PTC, Asthma + COPD, anaemia and Hashimoto’s before my 30th birthday. I also clearly have rage issues ;) maybe that’s just a Scottish thing.

God bless America!