When the elite and the mob who scream climate change start to give up their luxuries. Then maybe people will start to take it more seriously. But we all know all what will happen to solve it will be tax tax and more tax.

You get flying fish. If the sea is too hot they can fly out for a break. Also birds can swim and float on water so if the air temperatures are too hot then they can take a dip in the sea. Everyone looking at problems and not solutions which are all there. Give me a problem and I'll give you the solution.

comment by Fred The Red (U22224)
posted 2 minutes ago
When the elite and the mob who scream climate change start to give up their luxuries. Then maybe people will start to take it more seriously. But we all know all what will happen to solve it will be tax tax and more tax.
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Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good

Britain of all countries can do very little to impact the rate of global warming.

Our best bet is Elon and his mission to colonise Mars.

comment by Jed Maxwell (U1449)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 21 seconds ago
Go vegan, people.

Or at least less meaty.
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Pescatarian surely, more sea, more room for fish to breed
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Swimming in seas of plastic. No thanks.

comment by Fred The Red (U22224)
posted 6 minutes ago
When the elite and the mob who scream climate change start to give up their luxuries. Then maybe people will start to take it more seriously. But we all know all what will happen to solve it will be tax tax and more tax.
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Do you see the petrochemical industry billionaires such as the Koch Foundation who are funding think tanks and media outlets to oppose action on climate change as non-elites?

When you see hostility to the idea of the dangers of climate change based on hostility to tax rises, it suggests the objection is ideological rather than scientific.

This is what I have noticed where I live In the last three years, so it isn’t really random.

The hot dry spells last longer. When it does rain it very rarely showers, it quite literally chucks it down on you for one or two day periods destroying many of my plants and veg.

The winters are more mild and have less snow but have three or four day spells of absolute frigid temperatures due to what is called a polar vortex.

They need to get a grip on overpopulation for a start. Populations in Africa and Asia have surged in recent years. They reckon there will be 11bn people on the planet by 2100. Unsustainable.

The top 20 fastest accelerating populations are all in Africa and Asia, as are the countries doing the least to protect the environment.

Fastest growing populations:

Niger
São Tomé and Príncipe
Angola
DR Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Burundi
Zambia
Syrian Arab Republic
Chad
Burkina Faso
Mali
Tanzania
Somalia
The Gambia
Uganda
Mozambique
Gabon
South Sudan
Comoros
Guinea

We can all make changes is our daily lives and pressure governments as well, but what’s the point of it all if the species continue to breed like rabbits? Sh*gging ourselves into extinction.

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 1 minute ago
This is what I have noticed where I live In the last three years, so it isn’t really random.

The hot dry spells last longer. When it does rain it very rarely showers, it quite literally chucks it down on you for one or two day periods destroying many of my plants and veg.

The winters are more mild and have less snow but have three or four day spells of absolute frigid temperatures due to what is called a polar vortex.
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Least you get rain

I think it rained 3 times so far this year and won’t again till late November.

Oh and we’re perpetually on fire

Carbon capture technology is there. We can fix it, it's just very expensive and kind of impractical right now. Just like electric cars were.

There are 20 companies who contribute to 35% of the worlds carbon emissions, 12 of them are state owned and contribute 20%.

Recycling, and cutting down on red meat, or whatever is a drop in the ocean if the likes of Gazprom, Chevron, BP etc continue to operate the way they are.

There are people who know a lot more about climate change than I do who already believe it’s too late to make any meaningful change, including Sir David Attenborough.

I saw a map that showed how literally territory it would take up to place enough solar panels on the equator to power the entire planet. Was a pinhead in North Africa.

Unfortunately, the estimated cost of doing it is $60Tn so nobody is for it.

How little territory*

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I just saw a report on the news about a 17 year old girl who designed a solar powered ice-cream stand. Parents and family friends helped finance and build it. Every little bit helps. to this young woman.

comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 44 seconds ago
I just saw a report on the news about a 17 year old girl who designed a solar powered ice-cream stand. Parents and family friends helped finance and build it. Every little bit helps.to this young woman.
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That's stupid. The sun would just melt the ice cream.

Covid has shown that when we want things done they can be

Technology these days is frightening too. We could literally solve climate change tomorrow if we wanted to.

But money n'at

comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 9 minutes ago
They need to get a grip on overpopulation for a start. Populations in Africa and Asia have surged in recent years. They reckon there will be 11bn people on the planet by 2100. Unsustainable.

The top 20 fastest accelerating populations are all in Africa and Asia, as are the countries doing the least to protect the environment.

Fastest growing populations:

Niger
São Tomé and Príncipe
Angola
DR Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Burundi
Zambia
Syrian Arab Republic
Chad
Burkina Faso
Mali
Tanzania
Somalia
The Gambia
Uganda
Mozambique
Gabon
South Sudan
Comoros
Guinea

We can all make changes is our daily lives and pressure governments as well, but what’s the point of it all if the species continue to breed like rabbits? Sh*gging ourselves into extinction.

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And yet it's the stable populations of Europe and North America that drive the bulk of carbon emissions. It's the consumption patterns of our lifestyle that is unsustainable. African population growth becomes a problem if it's followed by the emergence of a growing middle class that behaves like we do.

It's important to acknowledge this for two reasons. First, we need to adapt our behaviour to limit the temperature increases - and we can do so without living in poverty if we invest in low carbon technologies and transition to more sustainable, more localised supply chains and renewable power. Then when middle classes emerge in the global south, they can emulate us, rather than be asked to do what we refused to.

Secondly, there is an emerging eco-fascism ideology that wants to repeat the worst genocidal atrocities of the 20th century, only now based on the survival logic of 'there are too many of us' rather than racial theories.

I guess you guys are going to get worked up over an issue you can't change again.

comment by Paul McGinn (U1734)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 44 seconds ago
I just saw a report on the news about a 17 year old girl who designed a solar powered ice-cream stand. Parents and family friends helped finance and build it. Every little bit helps.to this young woman.
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That's stupid. The sun would just melt the ice cream.
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No more brain-freeze so swings & roundabouts

How about we invest in making all countries developed countries instead of having so many developing countries? It's developing countries that have the highest population growth, the highest levels of pollution, diseases (such as religion) and food shortages etc. So if there were no developing countries left in the world then the population would stabilise, everyone would have iphones and we'd all be sorted.

I get that we are already doing plenty to help developing countries, like sending oxfam employees over to shaag their kids but we could do more.

comment by BruceAndPally (U8201)
posted 17 minutes ago
There are 20 companies who contribute to 35% of the worlds carbon emissions, 12 of them are state owned and contribute 20%.

Recycling, and cutting down on red meat, or whatever is a drop in the ocean if the likes of Gazprom, Chevron, BP etc continue to operate the way they are.

There are people who know a lot more about climate change than I do who already believe it’s too late to make any meaningful change, including Sir David Attenborough.

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This 'too late to do anything' narrative needs to stop. It's not too late, and if you go around saying that everyone will think there's no point trying. It's expensive and complicated but it's not like faster than light travel.. the technology exists to reverse the process. There just needs to be enough awareness that people start demanding their governments and favourite brands adopt it.

Capitalism and democracy has got us into this, it can get us out. We've just got to hold our nerve

comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 35 minutes ago
Britain of all countries can do very little to impact the rate of global warming.

Our best bet is Elon and his mission to colonise Mars.
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Mars is probably just the earth 500 years from now

comment by Bryãn's left boot (U22081)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by BruceAndPally (U8201)
posted 17 minutes ago
There are 20 companies who contribute to 35% of the worlds carbon emissions, 12 of them are state owned and contribute 20%.

Recycling, and cutting down on red meat, or whatever is a drop in the ocean if the likes of Gazprom, Chevron, BP etc continue to operate the way they are.

There are people who know a lot more about climate change than I do who already believe it’s too late to make any meaningful change, including Sir David Attenborough.

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This 'too late to do anything' narrative needs to stop. It's not too late, and if you go around saying that everyone will think there's no point trying. It's expensive and complicated but it's not like faster than light travel.. the technology exists to reverse the process. There just needs to be enough awareness that people start demanding their governments and favourite brands adopt it.

Capitalism and democracy has got us into this, it can get us out. We've just got to hold our nerve
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Stop waiting for governments to do something? And ask yourself what are you prepared to give up?

comment by BruceAndPally (U8201)
posted 26 minutes ago
There are 20 companies who contribute to 35% of the worlds carbon emissions, 12 of them are state owned and contribute 20%.

Recycling, and cutting down on red meat, or whatever is a drop in the ocean if the likes of Gazprom, Chevron, BP etc continue to operate the way they are.

There are people who know a lot more about climate change than I do who already believe it’s too late to make any meaningful change, including Sir David Attenborough.


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So what you’re saying is we’ve spent all this time saying PSG, City and Chelsea have ruined football but in reality they’ve actually ruined Earth?