O/T Greta and the eco mouths.

[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.