|
Ernie Hasler started as an apprentice engineer in Bishopton, Scotland. He retired as a health and safety advisor after more than a half century of work on some big jobs.
He became active in the trade unionr and saw many improvements in health and safety during his time.
In his spare time, he ran a small charity Plant Tree Save Planet starting womens tree nurseries in poor countries, mostly funded by himself and his two sisters, however, he closed it when due to poor health and age he could not effectively check out recipients. He continues to fund tree planting through Trees for the Future and in 2016 funded the planting of 20,400 seedlings and continues to do so, year on year.
He has been a voluntary trustee with Emmaus Glasgow helping take it from an aspirational concept to a functioning community of up to twenty-seven previously homeless people, Emmaus Glasgow now also match his tree planting funding.
Photo of Hasler steering friends boat past the lair of the nuclear monsters base on the River Clyde.
A far better policy would be to dig strong defensive positions all over the Highlands and make Scotland hard to invade.
|