Quote Originally Posted by rolymiller View Post
Its a fair point about flying Crash. Maybe people should be only allocated so many air miles a year to use for a start. Air craft are big polluters. If you go on flight radar you will see how any aircraft are in the sky all over the world at any one time...

As regards meat. I could happily live without meat but people do need a source of protein etc which meat gives as part of a balanced diet. Could a substitute though put stress on other food sources. There was a suggestion we should all eat insectsas a substitute Plenty of them about and a great source of protein. They already do this in some countries : fried tarantula-ok that aint an insect- the lot. Its only our culture which stops us doing this. Things can be done but it means a change in the way which we live. Maybe governments should reward insect food consumers/ suppliers in some way..

Whatever, the way forward should be reward, reward, reward people who are doing the environmentally correct thing and punish those who aren't. They would soon get the message that to live in tandem with the environment is the best way all round. I know gfire and the likes would call this a fascist policy but tough luck it is for their good as well.

As regards car ownership and 2 car families, yep guilty but in my defence they are small engined cars and mini polluters compared to other vehicles on the road.. The answer of this is of course to provide better more frequent and cheaper public transport and make electric cars cheaper to buy. Car share policies need to be improved as well which some LAS have touched on. Again punish and reward.
What do you think would happen to a political party that proposes an air miles system?

Vegetarians get their protein from vegetable sources - principally pulses and nuts. And no, switching to such sources does not put pressure on them; meat production is hopelessly inefficient, with animals needing to be fed many kilograms of protein (not always vegetable, unfortunately, in the case of cows and sheep) to produce one kg of meat. The same principle applies to dairy and eggs production. The land used for livestock farming can be used to produce much more vegetable protein. So fill your boots, Roly. Time for you to stop talking and start acting.

As for two cars - as you said yourself - guilty. I see you try to excuse that. Fair enough, but maybe the difference between you and gf is that he makes no bones about taking no action, whereas you talk about it, but do nowt. Are you a politician?

P.s. Electric cars run on electricity. Electricity has to be generated.