Climate change is being used by a new host of experts and politicians to get their hands on more of our cash.

A good result is that waste is no longer acceptable.

We were brought up in times of shortages and rationing. The u-boats were sending thousands of food ships down to the sea bed. Any waste from the kitchen like potato peel and outer green leaves were put into pig bins in every street and collected.

Measured, survival level rations were supplemented by home grown and garden produce. We gathered wild fruit for jam and bottling and mushrooms for a breakfast treat. Rose hips to produce vitamin syrup for children along with concentrated orange juice too, when it could get through.

Fresh citrus and other fruit and veg from abroad was strange to many children when it finally appeared in the shops after the six years of warfare. Buying by choice was unknown. We got what there was and we were healthy. The guilty feeling, that we were throwing away something that others desperately needed to survive on was never even dreamt of.

This was no personal chosen triumph. It was forced on us by the need to win and survive, although we were half way there because we had no spare cash to start with anyway.

Today a third of what we buy is thrown away without a second thought and we have a big national problem with obesity. Climate change is a wake up call to pull in our horns in many ways.

In the end mother nature rules. So we can just do the best we can and get on with it.