The country seems awash with climate change walkers.

A group from the Christian Aid march Cut the Carbon walked cheerfully into the editor's village this week and met the locals at a forum in the community centre.

They were young people from around the world and looked remarkably sprightly even though they’d walked from Belfast and still had most of their 1,000 mile, 80 day journey to complete.

There were stories of how the poor countries were already getting the raw deal in climate change, and there was empathy among villagers, and concern for how we in the west could lower our emissions.

But the editor, to use her appalling mixed metaphor, 'chickened out of putting the cat among the pigeons' by not bringing up the sensitive issue of wind turbines.

They are being fiercely resisted in her area, mostly she thinks because of appearance in a beautiful landscape. 'But the enormous electricity pylons which stride right through the county are the ugliest things you ever saw', she notes. 'I'd rather have a gleaming white, surrealistic wind turbine any day.'

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