An ageing island
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An ageing island
by GD on Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:54 pm
What will it be like to live in Jersey in the coming years? It's a question we're being asked to consider as the government prepares a strategy for the way the island will look in almost thirty years time.
Jersey, like most developed nations, is facing a future where a majority of citizens are past the current retirement age.
This raises a wide range of questions from who will care for his, where we will live and who is going to pay for it all?
The States Chief Executive Bill Ogley summed up the choices facing islanders in the future in a few clear points.
How long are we going to work in the future?
Are we going to have to pay more to look after ourselves in our old age?
Are we going to live differently?
Are we going to build more housing, more town housing with better amenities?
Are we going to have more people out of our society working, so are we going to put more support into them?
Are we going to have more come and live in the island so we can keep business running in the future, and public services?
These are questions that our new Candidates will have to find answer's
Jersey, like most developed nations, is facing a future where a majority of citizens are past the current retirement age.
This raises a wide range of questions from who will care for his, where we will live and who is going to pay for it all?
The States Chief Executive Bill Ogley summed up the choices facing islanders in the future in a few clear points.
How long are we going to work in the future?
Are we going to have to pay more to look after ourselves in our old age?
Are we going to live differently?
Are we going to build more housing, more town housing with better amenities?
Are we going to have more people out of our society working, so are we going to put more support into them?
Are we going to have more come and live in the island so we can keep business running in the future, and public services?
These are questions that our new Candidates will have to find answer's
......THE BOSS......
"Kindness costs nothing, it is such a small gesture to make,
but has such a HUGE impact on people,
which makes it worth it's weight in gold"
"Kindness costs nothing, it is such a small gesture to make,
but has such a HUGE impact on people,
which makes it worth it's weight in gold"
Re: An ageing island
by st_ouennais on Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:29 am
The engineered event that was Imagine Jersey 2035 produced the go for growth result
the establishment wanted. The attendees were invited to consider such a
narrow and prescriptive range of possibilities that the outcome was inevitable.
But it was worse, much worse. This future looking event completely ignored climate
change and peak oil. Not really surprising on reflection as everything we know
we need to do to deal with these two problems flies in the face of the growth
strategy. Never mind that every house built on a new field reduces our
possibilities of a viable food security. No need to concern ourselves
with the extra energy consumed keeping all that added infrastructure needed for
250 + new families a year. Never mind that all those high earning, high
consuming new families (the only ones we want) make it harder to reach our
commitments on C02 emission reductions.
What we urgently need is a proper genuine open minded consultation that includes the
restrictions and problems imposed by the realities of life in 2035 with diminished oil
supplies and increased climate chaos. And therein lies the problem.
If you have genuine open and meaningful informed consultations with the public
you run the real risk of them not selecting your preferred outcomes. If you don't
have that consultation you'll never be able to get them to accept the hard
consequences of dealing with the tough situation we face by 2035.
the establishment wanted. The attendees were invited to consider such a
narrow and prescriptive range of possibilities that the outcome was inevitable.
But it was worse, much worse. This future looking event completely ignored climate
change and peak oil. Not really surprising on reflection as everything we know
we need to do to deal with these two problems flies in the face of the growth
strategy. Never mind that every house built on a new field reduces our
possibilities of a viable food security. No need to concern ourselves
with the extra energy consumed keeping all that added infrastructure needed for
250 + new families a year. Never mind that all those high earning, high
consuming new families (the only ones we want) make it harder to reach our
commitments on C02 emission reductions.
What we urgently need is a proper genuine open minded consultation that includes the
restrictions and problems imposed by the realities of life in 2035 with diminished oil
supplies and increased climate chaos. And therein lies the problem.
If you have genuine open and meaningful informed consultations with the public
you run the real risk of them not selecting your preferred outcomes. If you don't
have that consultation you'll never be able to get them to accept the hard
consequences of dealing with the tough situation we face by 2035.
Last edited by st_ouennais on Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:58 am; edited 3 times in total (Reason for editing : messed up formatting)
