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Mike Berners-Lee has done some brilliant work on total carbon footprint for a number of interesting cases.
Tomatoes - the total carbon footprint of a tomato grown in Spain and imported to the UK then sold in a supermarket is less than that of a tomato grown in Kent and shipped to the same supermarket.
The obvious answer is not always the right answer
just kill yourself....... it'll be more fun.
Oh, you want somewhere that's inhabitable? Ahh.. then realistically we may have to roll back the clock to a world that nobody wants to inhabit! The irony...
The solution requires a globally coordinated effort on a scale never achieved in our history and unless any technological breakthroughs come to fruition quickly a significant change in the way we live our lives and expectations.
We can't seem get the people in our neighbourhood to agree where the dog waste bin should go...as for globally coordinated efforts...
As my children grew up I was looking forward to seeing how the next generation would react to the issue given the fact that they've been brought up and educated in midst of it all.. I'm ashamed to say that neither of them appear to give a fuck..
Now, if humans lived for a 1000 years things might be different - but they don't and hence..
That's not abdicating responsibility, it's a hard fact.
If no one buys it, they won't manufacture it.
It's true ;the government do put things in the vaccine to manipulate the population !
They are making me do it and have infiltrated my wasteful DNA .
I'm cutting (and composting )my Lawn with scissors ......no petrol polluting mower for me !
I'm taking my 2 week holiday in Devon ......of course I'll be walking there and should arrive just a week after it's time to start walking home .
Travel is a big one. Personal car use, long haul flights, long-distance freight. It's not going to go away but the footprint needs to be reduced. The added benefit would be that if you had to think twice before jumping in the car to pop to the Tesco Metro half a mile away, we'd be on the way to a healthier nation, too. Meanwhile, though: spacebound billionaires having lightsaber duels with their schlongs.
Re: Greens - too busy immolating themselves in identify politics firestorm right now to actually pursue their supposed prime directive.
We do need to get to grips with the idea of 'enough.' Maybe we don't need that fourth telecaster? Good personal choices on the part of well-meaning individuals will only going to go so far, though; govts need to stop abdicating responsibility and step up in such a manner that does not place the heaviest burden on the poorest. An equitable solution being some kind of personal carbon budget, perhaps.
Source for the fact?
I mean china's own pollution, not offshore manufacturing to sell goods to Europe and the USA.
Focuses purely on restrictions, and limiting human ability. No imagination. No forward thinking. No actual belief in a better world. No Jetsons grand visions, and no Arthur C. Clarke plans or goals. No vision. No smarts. No moxxie.
Sorry to ask a stupid question but what do you use to keep your house warm if you don't use central heating?
Like yourself I have a huge problem with central heating, in my house I'd put it for half hour stretches here and there as otherwise I struggle to breathe.
scrumhalf said: China's population will be shrinking, which is why they have quietly brought in a max of 3 children per families now, but few are having that many kids as they are really expensive.
IMO overpopulation is the main issue.
also we recycle to the extend that our weekly rubbish is one 8 liter bag for a family of 4
we grow as much produce as we can. Which saves on car trips to the shops, generally we buy as little as possible and we try to buy 2nd hand.
we also bike rather than drive. When possible.
none of this is due to wanting to reduce carbon footprint, it’s just money saving, but it all has a small positive impact.
Spokesman for polluting industries
EDIT - ignore, found it.
Will read. Good to get as many points of view on all these important issues and not just accept the mainstream narrative
It's a shame not everybody feels the same.
Wind turbines located in the sea and windfarms are usually presented as the 'solution' to our long term electricity needs. When in place, electricity generated by wind turbines is 100% green. No doubting that fact. However it is the immense amount of concrete, metals etc. needed to build and erect each wind turbine that is the problem. If each turbine worked at 100% efficiency for 1000 years, it is doubtful if that 100% green electrical output would compensate for the environmental damage incurred during it's construction and erection in situ. And it is a fact that we need an electric generation backup, coal/hydro/nuclear?, to supply power when the wind does not blow or demand is abnormally heavy. Having studied this issue in great detail over a number of years, I have come to the conclusion that wind generated electricity is, at best, only going to be a small part of the electricity generation system in the future.
I concur with the suggestions that greater insulation levels in houses, reduced temperatures in houses etc. are practical measures that can be taken by everyone now and each action taken in this regard, will have a small but measurable effect on our planet.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum