clint van damme
Well-Known Member
HAHAHA!
Couldn’t give two fucks about climate change,It’s all left wing bollocks,Do as I say not as I do.
While Emma Thompson such a luvvie goes home to New York after the last protest in her £18,000 plane seat laughing at the idiots on the ground!!!
Couldn’t give two fucks about climate change,It’s all left wing bollocks
I’m literally torn on ER. I know that there needs to be urgent action on climate change (impossible to say how urgent) and am struggling to argue against methods to bring it to the country/parliaments attention....but I think two weeks blocking up London will garner as much negative reaction as positive
I’d like to see some positive ideas and solutions to go along side maybe one or two day similar protests. Encourage
...people to stop buying ‘made in China’ (and other high polluting nations) products if they are considered to be a major polluter
....the public to plant trees (more in inner city areas in particular)
...support other more shorter term energy solutions (even ones they may ordinarily argue against ie Nuclear)
...organisation of ‘walking to school’ groups during the summer months rather than parents driving
....organisation of country/seaside clean ups
....ultimately be clear with what they want and what they expect of the public and government
Just shouting ‘the worlds going to end’ will get attention and drive some behaviour changes but deliver a message of a realistic ‘how’ !
ps if I was the government I’d direct a significant proportion of international/foreign aid to eco/sustainability projects abroad and/or incentivise those trying to do something
I agree with most of these and they are practical solutions if indeed some are stop-gap solutions.
Stopping the 'made in China' thing would help in some cases but if we've got trade deals to buy goods from them can we really stop the imports, even if the demand isn't there?
Planting trees again is good and maybe that as some form of offsetting could be useful - 'trees not tariffs'. Using the foreign/international aid budget in this way as a kind of 'two for one'. Personally I think even a small part of the defence budget could be used in this manner as a preventative measure - the less land we ruin and the more opportunities people can have in their own country the less people will want/need to migrate elsewhere and tension and flashpoints will be reduced.
Also where to plant the trees - I understand the job the ones alongside roads do but they also cause a lot of problems and I think a rethink of these are needed in terms of different plants etc. Green walls are an option to soak up carbon and pollution from roads as an alternative, but I am slightly concerned that you are effectively covering the house in flammable cladding.
Moss is apparently way better than trees per sq m at soaking up both pollutants and water, but we spend a lot of time scraping it out of lawns etc.
We need green corridors (which would also help wildlife).
My family have been reasonably eco-friendly on the small things even since before I was born and I reckon in the past most families were - it's only in the last couple of generations with the advent of plastic it's got really bad. We've always taken our own woven bags to get shopping. We always walked to school (but not during the summer months - pointless as there was no school)
But while the US authorities refuse to accept or take seriously this issue and the US people won't adapt beyond their consumerism and throw away society while the Chinese and India wilfully ignore it so as not to harm their economies (and other developing nations like Brazil follow their lead) it's not going to matter.
Are you Jeremy Clarskon by any chance?Couldn’t give two fucks about climate change,It’s all left wing bollocks,Do as I say not as I do.
While Emma Thompson such a luvvie goes home to New York after the last protest in her £18,000 plane seat laughing at the idiots on the ground!!!
Couldn’t give two fucks about climate change,It’s all left wing bollocks
Trade deals are not the driver, its rampant consumerism. We all buy too much crap.I agree with most of these and they are practical solutions if indeed some are stop-gap solutions.
Stopping the 'made in China' thing would help in some cases but if we've got trade deals to buy goods from them can we really stop the imports, even if the demand isn't there?
Planting trees again is good and maybe that as some form of offsetting could be useful - 'trees not tariffs'. Using the foreign/international aid budget in this way as a kind of 'two for one'. Personally I think even a small part of the defence budget could be used in this manner as a preventative measure - the less land we ruin and the more opportunities people can have in their own country the less people will want/need to migrate elsewhere and tension and flashpoints will be reduced.
Also where to plant the trees - I understand the job the ones alongside roads do but they also cause a lot of problems and I think a rethink of these are needed in terms of different plants etc. Green walls are an option to soak up carbon and pollution from roads as an alternative, but I am slightly concerned that you are effectively covering the house in flammable cladding.
Moss is apparently way better than trees per sq m at soaking up both pollutants and water, but we spend a lot of time scraping it out of lawns etc.
We need green corridors (which would also help wildlife).
My family have been reasonably eco-friendly on the small things even since before I was born and I reckon in the past most families were - it's only in the last couple of generations with the advent of plastic it's got really bad. We've always taken our own woven bags to get shopping. We always walked to school (but not during the summer months - pointless as there was no school)
But while the US authorities refuse to accept or take seriously this issue and the US people won't adapt beyond their consumerism and throw away society while the Chinese and India wilfully ignore it so as not to harm their economies (and other developing nations like Brazil follow their lead) it's not going to matter.
Trade deals are not the driver, its rampant consumerism. We all buy too much crap.
It’s all throwaway too. When was the last time you saw a TV repair man for instance. Nothing is serviceable in most modern appliances so it’s in the bin and buy a new one.
Mainly because of "cheap" manufacturing. It'll cost more to repair, than replace.
Not always though. Just the other week I tried to buy a new PCB control board for my washing machine only to be told that they’re not available for sale as a spare at any price (which I actually thought was illegal). Washing machine that’s otherwise perfectly OK in the bin because of a PCB, it’s ridiculous. If it had been a dry solder joint I’d have fixed it myself but one of the tracks was knackered so that was that. Then you get a new one with a the polystyrene and plastic wrapping to add to the waste plastic mountain.
Trade deals are not the driver, its rampant consumerism. We all buy too much crap.
Why would that be illegal? That happens a lot, where replacement parts aren't made anymore, so you need a complete new unit.
I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure it’s law that manufactures have to have serviceable spares available for x number of years after a line goes out of manufacture. 10 years is the number I have in my head but as I say I could be wrong. If I’m right the washing machine was only about 5 years old so it definitely hadn’t been out of production for 10 years.
Not always though. Just the other week I tried to buy a new PCB control board for my washing machine only to be told that they’re not available for sale as a spare at any price (which I actually thought was illegal). Washing machine that’s otherwise perfectly OK in the bin because of a PCB, it’s ridiculous. If it had been a dry solder joint I’d have fixed it myself but one of the tracks was knackered so that was that. Then you get a new one with a the polystyrene and plastic wrapping to add to the waste plastic mountain.
I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure it’s law that manufactures have to have serviceable spares available for x number of years after a line goes out of manufacture. 10 years is the number I have in my head but as I say I could be wrong. If I’m right the washing machine was only about 5 years old so it definitely hadn’t been out of production for 10 years.
I agree with most of these and they are practical solutions if indeed some are stop-gap solutions.
Stopping the 'made in China' thing would help in some cases but if we've got trade deals to buy goods from them can we really stop the imports, even if the demand isn't there?
Planting trees again is good and maybe that as some form of offsetting could be useful - 'trees not tariffs'. Using the foreign/international aid budget in this way as a kind of 'two for one'. Personally I think even a small part of the defence budget could be used in this manner as a preventative measure - the less land we ruin and the more opportunities people can have in their own country the less people will want/need to migrate elsewhere and tension and flashpoints will be reduced.
Also where to plant the trees - I understand the job the ones alongside roads do but they also cause a lot of problems and I think a rethink of these are needed in terms of different plants etc. Green walls are an option to soak up carbon and pollution from roads as an alternative, but I am slightly concerned that you are effectively covering the house in flammable cladding.
Moss is apparently way better than trees per sq m at soaking up both pollutants and water, but we spend a lot of time scraping it out of lawns etc.
We need green corridors (which would also help wildlife).
My family have been reasonably eco-friendly on the small things even since before I was born and I reckon in the past most families were - it's only in the last couple of generations with the advent of plastic it's got really bad. We've always taken our own woven bags to get shopping. We always walked to school (but not during the summer months - pointless as there was no school)
But while the US authorities refuse to accept or take seriously this issue and the US people won't adapt beyond their consumerism and throw away society while the Chinese and India wilfully ignore it so as not to harm their economies (and other developing nations like Brazil follow their lead) it's not going to matter.
Couple of dickheads dragged off the top of a tube train this morning for trying to hold people up going home from and going to work.
Hope he got a good kicking, targeting regular people using public transport to get to work to support a family, what did they expect? Surely they want people to use mass transit systems?
They want the government to take notice. They want people to be so disrupted that they ask the government for action too. This is standard non-violent protest stuff guys.
They want the government to take notice. They want people to be so disrupted that they ask the government for action too. This is standard non-violent protest stuff guys.
That’s how disruptive protest works mate. You don’t get much change if no one is inconvenienced.
Doesn’t excuse a gang of blokes battering one guy though.
Think they targeted Canning Town on the Jubilee Line and the DLR. The two services that run into the City of London.if you want change then block deliveries at Amazon, McDonald's, JLR, stop bankers getting to work etc
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