21-09-2020, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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Not just digging up turf Muddy, but climbing on tube trains preventing hundreds of people getting to work, some of those prevented from travelling were hospital staff and teachers.Stopping trains delivering coal to Drax power station, the main contributor to the national grid. The consequences of interrupting the supply would have been catastrophic.
The UK government has done more to offset climate change by providing sustainable energy and pollution control than any other country. Even you Muddy mentioned how most rivers had been returned to their natural state, you also mentioned the pea soupers that have now been eradicated by the reduction in fossil fuels. Incandescent light bulbs have been replaced with low energy LED versions, and every household in Britain now recycles their waste. Whole forests of wind turbines now fill our seascapes and wild spaces and solar panels adorn many roofs, both industrial and private. Not to mention the many projects still at the design stage such as electric vehicles....
The economy is a balancing act, and just moving headlong into new technology would leave thousands of people out of work, but the green revolution doesn't care about that, and I believe that is a very selfish attitude.
Naughty children.
21-09-2020, 10:21 PM
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Sorry to say this , but no-one is paying the slightest bit of attention to the astronomically growing human population. I say, 'Dramatically reduce that, or face climate warming on a scale so vast that human's will be in serious danger of starvation on a global scale.'Plant a tree or a flower if it makes you feel better , but it will have zero impact on the real problem... human over population.
Seriously, people, do you really think that the next 4 billion people will be satisfied with an occasional bowl of gruel ? Or will they demand, jobs, a decent place to live, 24/7 electricity, clean water on tap, and many of the so-called luxuries such as color TV, WiFi, refrigerators, stoves/ovens etc etc ?
Moreover, all of those "luxuries" require raw materials and endless open-pit mining and , of course, FUEL to run huge machines. In case you didn't think about it, those huge machines run exclusively on fossil fuels.
21-09-2020, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by bakerman
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Sorry to say this , but no-one is paying the slightest bit of attention to the astronomically growing human population. I say, 'Dramatically reduce that, or face climate warming on a scale so vast that human's will be in serious danger of starvation on a global scale.'Plant a tree or a flower if it makes you feel better , but it will have zero impact on the real problem... human over population.
Seriously, people, do you really think that the next 4 billion people will be satisfied with an occasional bowl of gruel ? Or will they demand, jobs, a decent place to live, 24/7 electricity, clean water on tap, and many of the so-called luxuries such as color TV, WiFi, refrigerators, stoves/ovens etc etc ?
Moreover, all of those "luxuries" require raw materials and endless open-pit mining and , of course, FUEL to run huge machines. In case you didn't think about it, those huge machines run exclusively on fossil fuels.
Perhaps nature is already dealing with the over population Bakerman, and that is why we have the dreaded Virus.
If it is getting rid of the sick, weak, and elderly, so only the fittest survive and live to breed.
That is how nature works.
21-09-2020, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Mups
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Perhaps nature is already dealing with the over population Bakerman, and that is why we have the dreaded Virus. If it is getting rid of the sick, weak, and elderly, only the fittest survive and live to breed.
That is how nature works.
22-09-2020, 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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Not just digging up turf Muddy, but climbing on tube trains preventing hundreds of people getting to work, some of those prevented from travelling were hospital staff and teachers.Stopping trains delivering coal to Drax power station, the main contributor to the national grid. The consequences of interrupting the supply would have been catastrophic.
Anyway they don’t need to do that anymore because the Corona Virus has done it for them .
Hasn’t it been made It evident
- as I mentioned a few pages back - that nature is hitting back ?
All these changes have been brought about by campaign groups
Such as Friends of the earth and Greenpeace .Extinction Rebellion is but one in a long line of campaign groups only it’s taking more radical tactics as the crisis gets more urgent .
22-09-2020, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by bakerman
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Sorry to say this , but no-one is paying the slightest bit of attention to the astronomically growing human population. I say, 'Dramatically reduce that, or face climate warming on a scale so vast that human's will be in serious danger of starvation on a global scale.'Plant a tree or a flower if it makes you feel better , but it will have zero impact on the real problem... human over population.
Seriously, people, do you really think that the next 4 billion people will be satisfied with an occasional bowl of gruel ? Or will they demand, jobs, a decent place to live, 24/7 electricity, clean water on tap, and many of the so-called luxuries such as color TV, WiFi, refrigerators, stoves/ovens etc etc ?
Moreover, all of those "luxuries" require raw materials and endless open-pit mining and , of course, FUEL to run huge machines. In case you didn't think about it, those huge machines run exclusively on fossil fuels.
https://populationmatters.org/
Many people in the world today - it’s poorest - already have to be content with poor food and accommodation.No electricity or water .
However 10 children in poverty take up less of the planets resources that two in the developed world .
Why we allow - nay encourage people to have large families in this day and age is incomprehensible to me,
It’s all about ‘ growth ‘ we need ‘growth’ to fuel the ever increasing economy .
It’s like some giant Ponzi scheme fuelled by the bottom layer .
The ones at the top benefit .
This is uNsustainable and will have to stop at some point .
We will all ( barring the very rich ) have to have a lower standard of living .
We will have to base our lives on needs rather than wants .
22-09-2020, 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by JBR
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Naughty children.
If you have ever been to Lancashire some decades back you will have noticed how black the building were .
They were covered with the coal dust and grime of over 150 years .
How do you think peoples lungs looked like ?
The horrors of silicosis meant a prolonged painful death for the men who mined that coal .
We don’t want to return to that but today if you spent time in London ( not in its present deserted state ) newcomers notice one thing.
The snot in their noses becomes grey .
clean your face with a face tissue at the end of one day in London and it’s comes off grey to black .
This is pollution
Magnify all this on an grand scale and it’s what we are doing to the planet .
Yet you call the people who recognise this - who have tried all legitimate ways of getting the government to act on this naughty children?
22-09-2020, 08:11 AM
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we should have more pandemics in order to hear the birds 
I have no children, so no grandchildren either. This means I have nobody to worry about, but all people who have children & grandchildren should think about this, because it will affect their lives much sooner than you think.
We may all be dead before the real horrors of of climate change occur, but younger people are likely to suffer much worse conditions that Surfermom is experiencing in the USA at the moment. These horrors are not going to be just a few weeks of bad weather...they will dramatically change peoples ability to live in safe conditions.
Human greed has done damage to this planet and, even if we are not totally to blame for the change in our climate, we are to a degree
If I had children & grandchildren, I couldn't bear to think that I had done nothing to try and make life easier for them by doing nothing!
22-09-2020, 09:10 PM
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One look at what China is doing. Seriously, how many gazillion trees would have to be planted to off set this ????That pollution does NOT stay in one place. It moves ! All around the globe and into the oceans of the world.
With every item we buy from China is only making matters worse.
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