Many risk factors can be reduced
through sensible actions that address broader issues such as family functioning, financial pressures, employment, health, and community infrastructure.
George Osborne should be commending those benefit recipients who take
such sensible actions, and apologising to them too.
But if the opponents of
sensible action continue to stand in the way, then of course the only paths left are the indirect ones, and these same opponents will have to shoulder some of the responsibility themselves for all the years of obstruction and obfuscation.
A different kind of climate movement would have tried to challenge the extreme ideology that was blocking so
much sensible action, joining with other sectors to show how unfettered corporate power posed a grave threat to the habitability of the planet.
The Metropolitan police say that most buildings that squatters live in have been abandoned or are otherwise empty, but still
such sensible actions, to use an empty usually industrial building to sleep in, are deemed criminal.
Your dog could also be allergic to something in his food so you can take
the sensible action of reading the ingredients and changing to a food that contains something different.
Meanwhile, as reasonable and
sensible actions are not taken, the threats to human and environmental health grow more daunting day by day.
Perhaps reasonable and
sensible action will be taken by citizens, both individuals and corporations, and by the instrumentalities of governance so that necessary behavior changes begin to occur forthwith.
It is time to confront the eco-bullying with facts and
sensible actions.