O/T Greta and the eco mouths.

[Trickytreesreds]

As we all know COP26 has been in full swing, with the hypocrisy of those attending in their private jets and cavalcades.

Greta is swearing and slagging off the UK. Boris has a green hard on for some reason, while our bills are going through the roof.

I ask myself, WTF is the point of us doing anymore?
We are already ahead of the game, yet our cutting helps practically zip?

I couldn't believe it reading that China has 1082 coal powered leccy stations, is building another 43 and openeing another 18 blast furnaces?

It's tiresome now and personnally, I think the UK population has had enough.
The sqeaking Swede nut job, can rant all she likes, but perhaps she ought to bugger off to Beijing and try squealing there?

[ramAnag]

As we all know COP26 has been in full swing, with the hypocrisy of those attending in their private jets and cavalcades.

Greta is swearing and slagging off the UK. Boris has a green hard on for some reason, while our bills are going through the roof.

I ask myself, WTF is the point of us doing anymore?
We are already ahead of the game, yet our cutting helps practically zip?

I couldn't believe it reading that China has 1082 coal powered leccy stations, is building another 43 and openeing another 18 blast furnaces?

It's tiresome now and personnally, I think the UK population has had enough.
The sqeaking Swede nut job, can rant all she likes, but perhaps she ought to bugger off to Beijing and try squealing there?

You do realise that Nottingham is just 46m above sea level don’t you?

I wouldn’t put it quite as you have but, sadly, you do have a point.
I’ve never really got all the Greta Thunberg stuff, although when David Attenborough speaks...I listen.
Setting a good example apart I’m not sure what little old Britain can do when China, India and Australia are amongst those sticking with coal...or when there is diddly squat chance of US motorists changing their habits and moving to electric vehicles.

Something does have to change though, but I doubt COP26 will achieve much other than ‘lip-service’ and more ‘hot air’.

[Trickytreesreds]

You do realise that Nottingham is just 46m above sea level don’t you?

I wouldn’t put it quite as you have but, sadly, you do have a point.
I’ve never really got all the Greta Thunberg stuff, although when David Attenborough speaks...I listen.
Setting a good example apart I’m not sure what little old Britain can do when China, India and Australia are amongst those sticking with coal...or when there is diddly squat chance of US motorists changing their habits and moving to electric vehicles.

Something does have to change though, but I doubt COP26 will achieve much other than ‘lip-service’ and more ‘hot air’.

46 M is fine. In fact I could end up with a 30 minute drive to the coast. My house price will soar. Result!

But Joking apart RA, why us? The Swedish nut job rants. We have Extinction rebellion running amock. Insulate Britian gluing themselves to tarmac. It's crap it really is.
Johnson seems to have a hard on for this and wants to throw money at it left right and center.
(assuming this is Carries doing)
Tax payer has to foot the bill and the foreign aid rip off is going back up?
Why not spend that foreign aid here? In effect, if you listen to these fanatics, then the investment helps folk abroad. Same difference really.

3 Chinese power stations, aparently burn the equivalent of all the UK's coal burn?

[wessoram]

46 M is fine. In fact I could end up with a 30 minute drive to the coast. My house price will soar. Result!

But Joking apart RA, why us? The Swedish nut job rants. We have Extinction rebellion running amock. Insulate Britian gluing themselves to tarmac. It's crap it really is.
Johnson seems to have a hard on for this and wants to throw money at it left right and center.
(assuming this is Carries doing)
Tax payer has to foot the bill and the foreign aid rip off is going back up?
Why not spend that foreign aid here? In effect, if you listen to these fanatics, then the investment helps folk abroad. Same difference really.

3 Chinese power stations, aparently burn the equivalent of all the UK's coal burn?

COP 26 Seems to me like putting the whole class into detention while the two naughtiest pupils play truant.

[Trickytreesreds]

COP 26 Seems to me like putting the whole class into detention while the two naughtiest pupils play truant.

I like that, good analogy.

[MadAmster]

Similar discussions going on here too. We're pretty much ahead of the game as is the UK. Shell even have a Court Order telling them when and by how much they must decrease emissions or face fines of hundreds of millions. This as a result of a lawsuit and an appeal by Shell after they lost the case. They lost the appeal too.

Where countries like Brazil and India do have a point is that they are doing now, what "the west" has been doing for >200 years. They are the ones, in the main, currently emitting greenhouse gases but they are merely adding to what we had created in the past. Maybe we should look at helping them, financially, to create new energy sources. Especially when you consider the monetary value the UK ripped from India during our colonial rule there and elsewhere....

[ramAnag]

Similar discussions going on here too. We're pretty much ahead of the game as is the UK. Shell even have a Court Order telling them when and by how much they must decrease emissions or face fines of hundreds of millions. This as a result of a lawsuit and an appeal by Shell after they lost the case. They lost the appeal too.

Where countries like Brazil and India do have a point is that they are doing now, what "the west" has been doing for >200 years. They are the ones, in the main, currently emitting greenhouse gases but they are merely adding to what we had created in the past. Maybe we should look at helping them, financially, to create new energy sources. Especially when you consider the monetary value the UK ripped from India during our colonial rule there and elsewhere....

Spoken like an inhabitant of a city that is actually, I think, below sea level. You’re probably right though...and from a nation that does know a thing or two about dams and managing the threat posed by water.

[MadAmster]

Spoken like an inhabitant of a city that is actually, I think, below sea level. You’re probably right though...and from a nation that does know a thing or two about dams and managing the threat posed by water.

My house is 5m below sea level

[ramAnag]

My house is 5m below sea level

Wow...how much of a concern is that? Mine is 167m above. I’ve heard of ‘mine is bigger than your’s’ competitions but never ‘mine is higher than your’s’.

[Ramshank72]

Wow...how much of a concern is that? Mine is 167m above. I’ve heard of ‘mine is bigger than your’s’ competitions but never ‘mine is higher than your’s’.

You must live in a castle

Ultimately though, we are over populated, there isn't enough natural resource to go around as it is, let alone sustain or protect future levels. This "save the world" / "go green" / "drink from a bamboo cup" isn't a movement I can genuinely get excited about, there are a lot more effective changes we can make to protect the creatures that live on this world right now.