Off Topic Climate Strike

That concerns me very much and i think about it a lot. If we keep digging out stuff from the middle and adding more weight to the top, when will the planet implode and collapse like a broken egg?

 

A friend of mine posted this sincerely on my Facebook this morning. I couldn't find the words to respond. Maybe you lot can find them.

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people have protested about pollution and the environment for as long as I can remember - whether its Jonathon Porritt of the Ecology Party in the seventies - people protesting about acid raid - people protesting about nuclear power - people protesting about exhaust fumes - people protesting about CFCs - things change but at the end of the day each subsequent generation is using more and more power, whether through automation in the workplace or in their leisure activities or simply because there's more and more people on the planet and many third world countries are developing - asking world leaders to sort it out is not going to get anywhere - look how Brazil reacted when confronted with burning the rain forest - we can all feel better by doing our bit - but how do you stop country's like India developing - you cant - too many people living longer and too many people wanting to live life to the full - if it makes you feel better reusing a plastic bag then fine, every little helps but it really is like pissing in the centre of a volcano hoping it will put it out

 

He is right, AS LONG AS THE ICE IS FLOATING.
If the ice is on land, THE OCEAN LEVEL RISES
Will this do?

 

What? Was that sarcasm or...

 

Refinement ^

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.in...thunberg-un-speech-predicted-lisa-9123286?amp

 

Getting into New World Order conspiracy theory there, this will open up a can of worms. Interestingly I saw a video the other day about rising sea levels, think the bloke's name was John Pena. Anyway, without having to understand the science, if rising sea levels were a genuine threat there would be zero investment anywhere that was 'threatened' . Banks would not lend money and it would be impossible to get insurance - the premise being that the financial institutions know full well what's what. The Maldives was meant to be underwater years ago according to Al Gore, but they still built a ruck of hotels, and Obama has just spunked $15 million on a beach side estate. Follow the money...

 

It was me who started the thread...and I started it with sarcasm and pithy comments to get it on track right from the start

My subjective anecdotal and unsubstantiated opinion is the serious derailments have been quite interesting though

 

I think 2008 put that premise to bed!

The Maldives are an interesting case. They know they are under threat and in the early 2000's they had a policy of encouraging tourism so they could build up a fund which would ultimately allow them to buy land in countries not threatened by flooding where displaced Maldive folk could relocate to. I believe this policy was dropped a few years ago and now they're focusing on recovering sunken land.

 

No... Science (am not certain about the climatology... you will get more evaporation and rainfall etc.)
I have no problem with the science, I just can't see our political system moving far enough or fast enough to solve it.

 

Hairy muff.

 

Fair enough, I thought you were being sarcastic for some odd reason.

A more apt analogy would have been to put the ice in a separate jug and then pour it in.

 

I’ll give you the words but you need to form them into a sentence.

“Gormless” “****” “you”

 

No, I decided to back off as my thinking was becoming political and I didn't want the thread shut down.

 

50 posts a day this thread. Is that a record?

 

To be fair, it's been productive as we're well on the way to solving it all.

We just need a bigger jug, or to drill a hole in the existing one.

 

I'm surprised it's stayed relatively
"Cordial

 

No this is ...

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Looks like it's not prorogued as yet