Carbon foot print.
It seems that no matter how much we reduce the power we use for all the things we need power for, someone comes up with something new that needs power; TV, video, etc.
In the end there is only two ways to reduce carbon release:
dump all forms of technology,
reduce the number of humans.
There is no way anyone will go back to hunting and gathering without fire. That just leaves reducing the number of humans. In the past the human race has made several attempts, the Nazis being the most highly successful. There remains only one human way to reduce human pressure on the Earth's resources. reduce the birth rate. Only China is attempting this. It is time to follow the lead of the central kingdom.
Read the OPPOSING viewpoint, not the IPCC (attention-seeking, grant-hogging and biased-without-honesty):
Mo' cynicism fo' yo' bo' !
I remember the summer of 76, as being a 'real' summer. The most recent was in 2005, I think. The rest of the time its been the typical British summer we all know.
Global warming doesn't mean much to anyone as they only recognise what is happening to them, in their own country and immediate climatic environment.
Its almost like the butterfly effect. If a dozen office workers in Manhatten pop out for a quick fag break, you can bet that an iceberg in Russia will melt by tea time.
We had an ice age 2 million years ago that melted and it was'nt because of me driving my land rover!.
I think the whole global warming debate is just another way to get money out of us.
I do however agree with controlling pollution and recycling where possible.
i raised the issue of car tax in another thread, and it digressed into me thinking about the levels of tax we pay to run a car, and aht that tax is being used on.
if they say we are paying higher tax on more carbon footprint making vehichals to combat global warming, how exactly? does it not just mean that thse that can afford to pay will, and those that cant go skint, not everyone can afford to buy a newer more efficiant car.
and is global warming really down to us or a natural thing?
is recyclying helping? the effort to wash a carton out, ( water, gas to warm water, washing up liquid)
then the petrol to drive to the recyclying centre, then that truck that collects it all to take it to a factory to recycle it and the energy that factory uses, then the cost in pertol etc for those people to drive to the factory to get to work.?
so we get taxed on everything we do, in a backward way to save the enviroment, but what do we get back for recyclying? nothing financially thats for sure.
wouldnt the government be best placed to make companys make all packaging bio degradable?
then why do local governments give the bin collecting contract to the company that can do it cheapest, and in my area this mean the one that wont provide us with wheelie bins or they cant afford the new bin lorrys for wheelie bins, so we have to use black bin bags.
if the goverment want us to use biodegradable bin bags why dont they give them to us?
today my head is hurting, ive been thinking far to much.
xx fem xx
