The monstrous urban expansion and brutal rural depletion are recognised to be contributing factors in global warming that is causing starvation, death and destruction in many parts of the world this day.
 
On Tuesday 23 June 09, between the hours of 3:30am and 4:30am, I created a documental DVD called “Framfield Road Birdsong”. My purpose was to witness the evidence that may be used by my local council to serve me a notice for noise nuisance under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 Section 80 following complaints by some residents in Framfield Road about my white leghorn cockerel, resident in the centre of Framfield Allotments (approximately 300 ft away from the closest house). It was reported that the cockerel was waking up the neighbours with its early morning crowing.
 
I called my DVD “Framfield Road Birdsong” as that is what I predominantly heard during the early hour; the joyous sounds of wild birds in the trees lining Framfield Road, Hanwell W7. The cockerel could be heard crowing in the background on many occasions but not at a volume loud enough to wake someone up, unless of course, to wake up is what they wanted.
 
The changing light from night, to dawn to full daylight by 4:30am inspired me to reflect on the millions of hours of electricity that are wasted by the unnatural urban lifestyle which prides itself on a dysfunctional ethos of “late to bed and late to rise, makes Jack healthy, wealthy and wise.”
 
There are places in this world where the lack of modern conveniences, such as electricity, sends people to sleep when darkness surrounds them and they are grateful to be awoken by the crow of a cockerel beckoning the birth of a new day, bringing light that is free.
 
In the midst of urban decay and depression, there are growing small seeds of this other world that some of us instinctively recall. The urban stranglehold is being fought back with elements of nature that have for too long been banished or silenced into non-existence like the natural sound of a cockerel crowing at dawn. All this for the sake of modern convenience, to feed the laziness, fuel the intolerance and empower the war against nature that has caused, is causing and will cause, more starvation, unnecessary deaths and barbaric destruction for the foreseeable future.
 
The white leghorn cockerel, currently resident in the centre of Framfield allotments, is merely symbolic of the small seeds of hope, that nature is fighting back. When he is silenced, he will symbolise the martyrdom and miserable bloodshed that so often precede the angry call for a change in consciousness; a change in our destructive beliefs that serve to uphold our attachment to a life of convenience where we are free to sleep in blissful ignorance of a world that is devolving with an atmosphere burning the bodies and spirits of our fellow brethren that starve whilst we sleep.
 
The price we pay for killing the cockerel wake up call is our contribution to global warming…the hours of wasted electricity when the natural day has ended and the hours of wasted daylight that is free. When the cockerel is silenced, the sleepers shall sigh in relief but those with their eyes wide open shall weep.
 
When is the last time you heard a cockerel crow at dawn?

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