This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Sunday, 29 May 2022
Mint Imperial?
The UK currently uses a strange mix of Imperial (e.g. miles per hour and pints of beer) and metric (e.g. price per kg of food) measures. Its PM reportedly wants to add fervour to the celebration of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, by allowing returns to Imperial measures (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/28/boris-johnson-set-to-bring-back-imperial-measurements-to-mark-platinum-jubilee). The PM apparently sees bringing the UK inline with the US, Myanmar and Liberia (the only countries where Imperial measures are still used on a daily basis), as a vote-getter. Perhaps people, concerned about the 'cost of living crisis', will feel happier that the petrol (gasolene) they can no longer afford, is in gallons? Perhaps price increases of potatoes sound less scary in pounds and ounces than they do in kilograms? Nostalgia rules, OK?
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