It turns out that there’s proof that the idea of being devoured by a blood thirsty giant plant is not that outlandish after all since botanists have found a carnivorous plant much like a venus flytrap that eats rats. Feed me , FEED ME! Although the musical first came out in the 60s and then as an 80s film more recently, the concept of Suddenly Seymour the singing plant monster from Little Shop of Horrors that eats people still holds up today as an entertaining prospect.   The Nepenthes attenboroughii (pictured below) has been discovered in the Philippines.
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I don’t know but I like it…
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To be ‘green’ has become the buzz word of the 21st century thanks largely to the struggle undertaken by environmentalists to get their issues onto the mainstream agenda throughout the last two decades of the last century. If one goes back twenty years recycling was far from the norm that it is considered to be today, indeed people across the UK now face fines if they do not separate their glass from their plastics etc… One has to wonder whether it has been worth all the trouble, especially when reports continually emerge that much of the rubbish that is so painstakingly separated for recycling simply ends up in large landfill sites anyway!

Moreover as recent reports in the media have shown not only does our rubbish end up in landfills – but we are actually exporting this rubbish to other countries around the world. More recently, Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, has ordered an investigation into two British companies linked to 90 shipping containers containing 1,400 tonnes of waste that were exported to ports in Brazil and will now have to be returned to the UK.  Not only is this damaging to Britain’s claims to be leading the world in the fight against climate change, such activities threaten habitats, ecosystems and endanger the lives of millions, including children who often have no choice but to work in the terrible conditions of scrapyards such as the one at Agbogbloshie, near Accra in Ghana. The locals refer to Agbogbloshie as Sodom and Gomorrah as it has quickly become one of the world’s digital dumping grounds, where hundreds of millions of tons of the West’s electronic waste piles up every year. According to The Times, this dangerous trade in obsolete electronic products is being encouraged in part by Britain as they claim to have seen computers that had once been used in the offices of the Ministry of Defence.

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