Off Topic Climate Strike
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Ah, it's fine. We're only killing time until the late comers catch up anyway. They're only just at the point of finding out that climate change isn't good, and thinking that they need to preach to folk about it because they don't think anyone else realises.
That's a like for the first half of that, not sure there are any proposed measures so accepting the consequences of them may be difficult.
Which sort of brings us back to Ric in Glasgow (?) point there is a good chance that those older ones had a much smaller carbon foot print than the kids of today without even knowing. Although the kids of today are blaming the older generations, their own actions are much worse for the environment so will they step up and do something more than a street protest when they should be in school.
Good thread this.
And all the time the generations blame each other, the businesses and financial institutions that have made a fortune, and funded the science and media outlets have worked out how to make a killing on the next stage.
There's been a lot of that preaching business on this thread though, Dutch. I'm guilty of it myself. But people preach and then people with opposite opinions preach right back at them.
I'm going to leave this whole thing with this...
We seem to be in the **** and nobody has the definitive answer.
We just do what we as individuals feel is the right way forward.
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Well, that's an admirable stance to finally take. I've checked your responses and summarised them thus:
Took the piss out of apple trees
Said good weather is good
Complained that kids today use electricity and go abroad
Feel sorry for Greta, awwww
Laughed at the word ‘lather’
Gay joke
Soap joke
Joke about growing coal
Good joke about DeLorean
Not sure where floods will occur
Joke about Noah’s ark
Joke about extra space for fish
Joke about coast to coast walks being shorter
Monty Python jokes about Jesus and crosses
Not a climate change denier “BUT” boom, sixpence, PM for my address, then you complained about the past
Worried about other places and how you can’t change for them
Joke about Chinese imports
Incorrectly arguing
The younger generation are doing what we taught them
Defensive nothing
Moaning about Greta and ‘being preached to’
Called me “a random”
Argued for no reason
Thought you’d be at my table in a social situation
Again, what is your position and how would you like to deliver my sixpence? Also, I require some kind of bonus for reading all of this bollocks. Unless that was your plan in which case, well played sir. You've planned this for a week.
Yes Toasters has proper blown it there with his oestrogen-rich whine about us gammons.
Without descending into Monty Python Yorkshiremen sketch most of us over 50 can recall details of daily life back then
A few random ones: playing football in the streets because there were virtually no parked cars to get in the way, outside bogs all year round in most Hull primary schools (low carbon emissions or what?)- what fun we had on frozen mornings pissing or having a Forest Gump on the layer of ice in the bog bowl, very few houses with double glazing or central heating, no parents doing the school run in the car(s).
Much less money, much less consumption and underdeveloped energy policies meant we polluted far less as individuals than today's equivalents, even if some of the pollution was dirtier
A general widespread lack of prosperity meant most people were just glad to keep warm to get through the winter , rather than devising more environmentally methods of energy consumption. We did however drastically reduce the 'acid rain' we produced.
All this in an era of offensive stereotyping in our sitcoms too.
Oh, there are plenty of people with answers, it's just that the ones that will be effective will mean a significant shift in how we live, and I think we're a long way from getting people to accept that. If it's not managed very carefully, it's going to take the livings away from people in poor nations that have **** all as it is.
I've maintained for many years that the argument over mans contribution simply clouds the issue. Nature will do a grand enough job with us shifting the timescales and intensity, but we can't keep using resources, and dumping the residue into the air land and water at the rate we do.
I don't think a Football Forum is an appropriate place for a 'serious' discussion when many forum members enjoy injecting humour into threads.
Why?
Because they can.
Hey, I listed the 'jokes'. He led me to believe there was something interesting there.
Ah ****, that was the joke, wasn't it?
My Dad was called Dick, it's on his gravestone, and I'm proud to be his son.
People are free to put threads on here about climate change but they should expect puns, sarcasm, derailments, pithy comments, subjective anecdotal unsubstantiated opinions.
Humourless precious berks be warned.
