Off Topic COP 26

[balkan tiger]

SKY news have sent their A team to "report from the front line of the climate disaster" Madagascar and Brazil.

 

[originallambrettaman]

The UK is responsible for 1% CO2 Emissions. Its population is 68.4 million
So my bit is 1% divided by 68.4 million
Can I make a difference?
No
Doesn't mean I shouldn't try but I also have a sense of perspective.

That figure is just for direct CO2 emissions, it doesn't include all the flights we take, or all the goods we import etc.

We're the third biggest aviation polluting nation, after the USA and China and one of the largest importers of goods from the Far East.

We can make a difference (albeit a relatively small one).

 

[originallambrettaman]

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces a $2 billion pledge allocated directly to restoring nature, as part of a $10 billion commitment to tackle climate change.

 

[highpeak tiger]

all the flights we take

I've managed 2 since 2017, 1 to Corfu and an hours jaunt from Leven, which was a present.

 

[DMD]

i wouldn’t say she is uneducated as she speaks bloody good English. I’m not a fan of urban warriors/activists
but at least she has the younger generation interested even if she if she is front of shop for others to script. Sometimes for some reason people get shoved in the front as a mouthpiece and get stuck there. I think this may be the case of well I can’t get off the train now.

She herself says she's uneducated, partly due to her condition and partly due to her lack of school attendance. Her words confirm this.

 

[SW3 Chelsea Tiger]

Every one of the 20,000 delegates had to be security vetted, there's 10,000 police on duty in Glasgow every day for twelve days and they're not all in the same hotels, Biden's not even staying in Glasgow due to security concerns.

There's over 100,000 flights a day worldwide, 400 planes bringing people to a two week conference aimed at tackling world climate change is neither here nor there, it's a complete red herring.

its not a red herring - it’s about leadership & setting the right example

 

[balkan tiger]

its not a red herring - it’s about leadership & setting the right example

If they were going there to actually do something I would be less critical but it's just another talking shop.

 

[SW3 Chelsea Tiger]

If they were going there to actually do something I would be less critical but it's just another talking shop.

agreed

 

[Off The Line]

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces a $2 billion pledge allocated directly to restoring nature, as part of a $10 billion commitment to tackle climate change.

It's a good start but he can obviously afford to pledge a lot more.

It's considerably less than Amazon's weekly profit.

 

[Mr Hatem]

Picking on a child for wanting to make all of our future's better is proper sad.

She is 18 (19 in January), so not considered a child.

 

[originallambrettaman]

its not a red herring - it’s about leadership & setting the right example

The office of the US president is not permitted to take a commercial flight (any plane he gets on becomes Air Force One and nobody but his staff is permitted on it), the same applies many other world leaders, it's a complete red herring.

 

[Off The Line]

She is 18 (19 in January), so not considered a child.

She is though. Plus in her case, chronological age is not the only determining factor.

 

[balkan tiger]

Be interesting to see how it compared to a regular croissant

Interesting little snip from the BBC coverage this morning…

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[Off The Line]

The office of the US president is not permitted to take a commercial flight (any plane he gets on becomes Air Force One and nobody but his staff is permitted on it), the same applies many other world leaders, it's a complete red herring.

Boris could definitely have travelled by train though.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

its not a red herring - it’s about leadership & setting the right example

I’m off to Tenerife in January for some serious discussions about this climate change malarkey
Probably plant a few winter flowering violas and pansys to cover it
All good

 

[originallambrettaman]

Boris could definitely have travelled by train though.

The government making internal flights cheaper is certainly more damaging and daft than how the delegates turned up for this conference.

 

[Charon]

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[Off The Line]

The government making internal flights cheaper is certainly more damaging and daft than how the delegates turned up for this conference.

Agreed. I just read somewhere that our pensions fund a higher CO2 emittal than the UK's carbon footprint.

 

[Phinius T Bookbinder]

She herself says she's uneducated, partly due to her condition and partly due to her lack of school attendance. Her words confirm this.

Yeah I understand she said that too. She’s clearly a bit more than that. I would rather listen to experts to be honest.

 

[Off The Line]

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I remember that joke 20 years ago.