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02-12-2023 08:07 AM #601
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02-12-2023 08:21 AM #602
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03-12-2023 12:45 PM #603
And today the president has said that transitioning away from fossil fuels will “have us back living in caves”. It’s beyond comprehension that this nation was allowed to host this. It’s always a bit of a circus, but it’s been a joke this year.
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03-12-2023 12:48 PM #604
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03-12-2023 12:50 PM #605
Because of what I do, I was involved in COP26 at Glasgow and I felt quite optimistic after it concluded. There’s such a growing populist turn against it nowadays that this COP in particular is going to amplify all of the wrong messages. I genuinely despair right now at where we’re heading.
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03-12-2023 12:52 PM #606This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
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03-12-2023 12:54 PM #607This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteIt's hard to stitch my own back with these shaky hands
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03-12-2023 12:55 PM #608This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
Sir Matt Busby
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03-12-2023 01:08 PM #609This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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03-12-2023 01:11 PM #610This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Downside is the very rich ones would simply move to their secondary residences in the UK, and not to take up the jobs the EU workers were forced to leave behind.
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"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
Sir Matt Busby
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26-01-2024 11:47 AM #611
https://x.com/stvnews/status/1750858...dxJXScFNwz8V4A
It has been a bit blowy right enough.
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04-02-2024 09:30 PM #612
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41322742.html
Don’t they know this won’t work?
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05-02-2024 04:38 AM #613This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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08-02-2024 11:08 AM #614
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68110310
so that's a full year under our belts at +1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
i find the whole thing very strange. i get the need to be calm and rationalise this into context, why there's still hope etc., but at the same time, it feels more and more like we're in a flimsy vehicle hurtling towards a wall lined with explosives.
when do we admit that our political systems, and a huge amount of our lifestyle choices, need to absolutely go in the bin? I'm not saying I live a 100% green life by any means, I'm just asking these questions. FWIW I really struggle to see how air travel can be justified in any cases other than seeing loved ones and one-off work trips, diplomacy etc. Same goes for meat, and I try to avoid it as much as possible, particularly cheap crap stuff, but again, I'm not here to claim moral superiority, I definitely still eat it when veggie options are rubbish.
Bottom line for me, though, is that individual choices are more or less pissing in the wind. Governments need to either legislate or be toppled, otherwise the future of our planet looks very inhospitable for eejits like us, and sadly many other creatures and life forms who have done nothing wrong.
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08-02-2024 12:20 PM #615This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Many of the green policies are just guilt tripping lip service.
Consume , consume...build more houses because it makes housing more accessible (as if that has ever actually happened in Britain), encourage economic reliance on tourism with all the attendant carbon footprint, new cars, they're so electric (but not very green). Cheap food imports, travelling all around the world, we need that cheap food (regardless of the cost to those who's countries grow it) because our wages are so low. Social care crisis anyone, let's import hundreds of thousands of people from developing nations instead of adequately funding the industry (whilst we're at it , we can spend hundreds of millions on a Tram system that serves a fraction of the cities population, handy for the tourists though and your house price might rise if you live near it, lol)). Fossil fuels? Let's issue new licences to extract more oil from the North Sea and tell the suckers their cars aren't compliant with our make no difference ULEZ zone).
Sadly, people feel there are no alternatives and they're right. Unless governments get radical, anything we do is pissing in the face of a gale force wind.Last edited by superfurryhibby; 08-02-2024 at 12:41 PM.
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08-02-2024 12:27 PM #616This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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08-02-2024 06:23 PM #617
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We should all be willing to do the following but people aren’t willing to go without foreign holidays, new clothes, new electric items, live in cold home in winter (or a hot home in summer for those in hot climates) and so on. Once again it’s probably the mindset of why should I suffer when everyone else isn’t. Maybe if it was forced on the whole world’s population it would be easier to stomach because we would all be in the same boat but that would take totalitarian governments to achieve. Not something many would accept without a fight.
Using the UK as an example once again our economy is to some degree a ponzi scheme. If our population stops growing or shrink the economy goes to ****. We therefore have to increase our population by immigration with the effect of building more houses on green land, consuming more food, more fuel, more cars on the road and effectively more of everything bad for the environment. Then how many people live within walking distance of their work. A few centuries ago the answer would have been everyone. Now it’s probably a pretty small %, especially in the west.
Then the real elephant in the room is the world’s ever growing population. We are 1.5 degrees above pre industrialisation levels. The world’s population at that milestone was sub 800 million. We are now over 10 times that figure.
If our population was still 800 million we could sustain our current lifestyles without killing the planet I’d imagine. Dammed if I know the solution to that one though.
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08-02-2024 07:17 PM #618This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-02-2024 10:11 AM #619
https://x.com/guardianeco/status/175...dxJXScFNwz8V4A
Thought Labour had cancelled this emergency?
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29-02-2024 04:30 PM #620
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This Tory Government doesn't seem to believe in green issues.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...e_iOSApp_Other
The UK government is providing a €700m (£600m) guarantee for the billionaire Jim Ratcliffe to build the biggest petrochemical plant in Europe in 30 years that will turbocharge plastic production.
The huge petrochemical plant has been described as a “carbon bomb” by campaigners. Being constructed in the Belgian city of Antwerp by Ratcliffe’s company Ineos, it will bring plastic production to Europe on a scale not seen before, just as countries are trying to negotiate a binding global treaty to tackle the growing problem of plastic pollution.
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01-03-2024 08:37 PM #621
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Why on earth would we fund a billionaire to build a factory in Belgium?
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01-03-2024 09:06 PM #622This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
AND this plant will do exactly what will be shut down at grangemouth!!
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01-03-2024 09:33 PM #623
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It's being funded by banks plus UK, Italian, Spanish and Belgian governments I had read through export loans. I'm not sure at what rate or benefit to the other countries. I think it claims it will be carbon neutral after 10 years. I can't see how, probably some greenwashing project like tree planting but I'm unsure
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09-04-2024 06:42 PM #624
Just seen on the news that some Swiss women have won a case in the ECHR on tackling the climate crises.
Good news? Surely?"...when Hibs won the Scottish Cup final and that celebration, Sunshine on Leith? I don’t think there’s a better football celebration ever in the game.”
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09-04-2024 07:10 PM #625This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-04-2024 02:02 PM #626
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I critised this at the time. The green led scot gov £2 billion PFI deal will mainly benefit huge polluters and rich land owners. Carbon offset has been shown time and time again to be a swindle with negligible environmental benefits allowing massive amounts of Carbon emissions
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/03/pri...cotlands-trees
The Scottish Government's £2 billion PFI deal to pay wealthy landowners to plant trees will increase inequality and do nothing to deter big polluters – proof that the market can't fix the climate crisis
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10-04-2024 03:28 PM #627
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10-04-2024 04:17 PM #628
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If you want more sources that the PFI is terrible
An article from eco experts on Carbon offsetting I admit they have bias in saving the planet
https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/blog...s%20we%20think.
Greenpeace too
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/t...t-really-work/
The biggest problem with carbon offsetting is that it doesn’t really work
Robert Mcalpine ex Green party has been fighting for Scotlands nature for decades
https://robinmcalpine.org/scotlands-...ing-us-poorer/
Scotland’s money trees are making us poorer
by Robin McAlpine | 13 Mar 2023
The Scottish Government is trying to 'lever in' private funding to profit from tree planting in Scotland. The direct consequence of this will be something akin to 'reverse land reform', pricing another generation off the land.
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10-04-2024 06:29 PM #629This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He's a big miss in parliament, a common sense voice in the green movement who understood that perfection can often be the enemy of good.
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10-04-2024 06:40 PM #630
What we really need is legislation to outlaw wood burning and multi fuel stoves......
|Meanwhile we can carry on flying around in our private planers and helicopters, jet of all around the globe on holiday, burn thousands of acres of grouse moor, import food from all around the world \(obviously needed even more now we are because we are building houses, despite Nimbyism, on prime agricultural land).
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