Off Topic Climate change/ pollution

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That's still:

950,000,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases and 875,000,000 tonnes of CO2 coming from aircraft. The fact that the percentages are small in no way plays down the impact it has on climate change. Private jets probably don't contribute much compared to those figures, but anything that reduces the overall figure is going to be positive.

More coming from other sources though. Why not get those reduced?
 
More coming from other sources though. Why not get those reduced?

Yes, they should, but it would be substantially easier to take care of the small things first and then move on to the bigger stuff. In an ideal world China would get a grip, but they’re not going to without a massive policy change so it’s better to focus on things we can alter right now than things we can’t.

Just because we’re talking about one thing, does not automatically mean everything else is off the table.
 
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Yes, they should, but it would be substantially easier to take care of the small things first and then move on to the bigger stuff. In an ideal world China would get a grip, but they’re not going to without a massive policy change so it’s better to focus on things we can alter right now than things we can’t.

Just because we’re talking about one thing, does not automatically mean everything else is off the table.

we shouldn't do anything about it becasue china wont so why should we
the mindset
 
we shouldn't do anything about it becasue china wont so why should we
the mindset

Because they don’t set the standard for climate change, we should. The USA and China both need a slap in terms of their environmental impact.

In other news, I’ve heard a little whisper of a name on the interviews front. An international manager.
 
Well personally I'm hoping that Acun doesn't fly too many prospective managers over, when there are plenty that are locally produced.
Personally I'm hoping that mad bastard Putin doesn't launch any ballistic missiles over...That would really **** the planet:emoticon-0103-cool:
 
we shouldn't do anything about it becasue china wont so why should we
the mindset

Yes, we, responsible for about 1% of emissions should shut down, shiver in the dark and never go anywhere whilst China carries on regardless.
The mindset.
 
Yes, we, responsible for about 1% of emissions should shut down, shiver in the dark and never go anywhere whilst China carries on regardless.
The mindset.

right becasue using commercial planes rather than private jets is shivering in the dark
 
Yes, we, responsible for about 1% of emissions should shut down, shiver in the dark and never go anywhere whilst China carries on regardless.
The mindset.
Or we could target the 100 companies responsible for 71% of emissions? But that's a whole different mindset.
 
Yes, they should, but it would be substantially easier to take care of the small things first and then move on to the bigger stuff. In an ideal world China would get a grip, but they’re not going to without a massive policy change so it’s better to focus on things we can alter right now than things we can’t.

Just because we’re talking about one thing, does not automatically mean everything else is off the table.

How will our reducing things make any difference? If the UK shut down tomorrow it would only be a few months before levels were back to where they were due to China alone. Then there is India, the USA and elsewhere…Bolivia is worse than we are.
 
Or we could target the 100 companies responsible for 71% of emissions? But that's a whole different mindset.

How much of those emissions are in this country? How many of those companies are UKmcompanies? How will you target them?
 
How will our reducing things make any difference? If the UKmshutbdownntomorrow it would only be a few months before levels were back to where they were due to China alone. Then there is India, the USA and elsewhere…Bolivia is worse than we are.

Because even the smallest changes help. Are you seriously saying we should do nothing because other nations just carry on regardless? What a great example that sets the younger ones: “ah don’t bother trying at anything, it won’t change anything”
It’s not about attesting blame, that’s happened, it’s all of our faults, what needs to happen now is everybody needs to work on reducing their impact on the environment, even if it’s just one small change everyday.
 
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