The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

“Old time Bahamian, you need to re-educate yourself if you truly believe that a few charcoal burners in the pine barrens produced emissions on the scale of the carbon fueled power plants required to power your modern electrical appliances. You and other old timers, myself included, lived in a paradise compared to how we live now, especially in Nassau.”

This was the comment below a letter published in The Tribune recently and signed by “An Old Time Bahamian.”

The old timer was referring to a time past when coal was used in the Bahamas for almost everything – from heating and lighting the home to ironing your clothes with the old Goose iron. With electricity and all the modern appliances coal burning is now a thing of the past. It is true that with all the coal burning done in those days the world would not be brought to the edge of extinction by contributing to climate change. However, I wonder if the person commenting on this coal burning observation ever heard — or having heard understood the meaning of the expression – ''every mickle makes a muckle!”

The absence of the old time coal burning was just so many “mickles” coming together to make a “muckle”. If each person in this world would take it upon themselves to add their “mickles” to the “muckles” and eliminating them then maybe – just maybe we can contribute to saving our planet from extinction – remember every “mickle makes a muckle” – and those “mickles and muckles” if eliminated by us working together would give a mighty boost to saving this precious planet that we call home.

ANOTHER OBSERVER

Nassau,

November 14, 2021