O/T:- Planet of the Humans

[TheBlackHorse]

... exactly mad d s ... like the erk who tightened the bolts on the Merlins; and the housewife who sewed the parachute. Some of the 100%Hindsight Mob pontificating about the rights and wrongs don't recognise that this is a form of war and there are no perfect solutions. If they want to start pointing why not start with Cygnus in 2016. It's like someone said, there will never be another war (pandemic) so we don't need to prepare. Bu115hit.

[queenslandpie]

Just finished watching this. So the solution is basically what China did a few years ago to limit population growth and limit the number of kids people can have? Good luck implementing that. We will wipe ourselves out eventually its the natural course of things. Great watch and we clearly on path to extinction in the next few hundred years.

[Old_pie]

As I've oft said, and this includes Greta too - the next generation should simply abstain from having kids - problem sorted.

[BigFatPie]

The UK has now gone 20 coal free days in its production of electricity.

https://twitter.com/uk_coal/status/1...901370881?s=21

[Old_pie]

The UK has now gone 20 coal free days in its production of electricity.

https://twitter.com/uk_coal/status/1...901370881?s=21

The real test is how many days the coal was really needed. We were near the brink of using all available and imported power a couple of times over the winter. Too many things in this country are running too close to the limit including NHS, Rail, Roads, Power, major airports, water supply, sewage, to name a few. A puff of wind, drop of snow or a good soaking and we're in trouble.

[queenslandpie]

The real test is how many days the coal was really needed. We were near the brink of using all available and imported power a couple of times over the winter. Too many things in this country are running too close to the limit including NHS, Rail, Roads, Power, major airports, water supply, sewage, to name a few. A puff of wind, drop of snow or a good soaking and we're in trouble.

No idea if you are right or wrong, but how do you know re: close to the wind and losing all power over winter?

[upthemaggies]

The Climate Industrial Complex is calling for filmmaker Michael Moore’s head after his latest film skewered the hypocrisy of the “renewable energy” industry, exposing its leaders’ cozy relationship with the fossil fuel bogeymen.
Moore’s climate change polemic ‘Planet of the Humans,’ directed by Jeff Gibbs, has been viewed over four million times on YouTube in just over a week. But just two days after the film’s release, timed for Earth Day, filmmaker Josh Fox led the charge to have Moore – once a “hero” of his – deplatformed over alleged disinformation. In an earnest letter, Fox demanded not only a “retraction and an apology” from Moore but for the film to be yanked from distribution entirely........

There are other complaints with Moore’s film, of course. Many have pointed to its apparent focus on what is euphemistically called “population control” as the only possible solution to the climate change problem. In fact, there are other ways – such as the world’s biggest resource-consumers, the military-industrial complex, winding down their activities – to rein in human consumption.



https://www.rt.com/op-ed/487297-mich...les-hypocrisy/

[sidders]

Of course. the central problem with population control is the one of who controls the controllers.

[LaxtonLad]

The real test is how many days the coal was really needed. We were near the brink of using all available and imported power a couple of times over the winter. Too many things in this country are running too close to the limit including NHS, Rail, Roads, Power, major airports, water supply, sewage, to name a few. A puff of wind, drop of snow or a good soaking and we're in trouble.

All you mention and others (coal, steel, post office, gas, electric, oil,) were nationalised industries that were costly but were functioning well under a socialist government. Then along came the promises, propaganda and privatisation from the Tories, profits rose and efficiency fell.

And here we are now, with a massively underfunded NHS which would soon have disappeared if the Conservative party had had their way and the virus had not struck. Where would we have been in two years time if they were still in power and the virus had waited and struck then?

[Old_pie]

No idea if you are right or wrong, but how do you know re: close to the wind and losing all power over winter?

This website: https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ takes real-time data that is accessible to the industry and if you dig deep enough to the public.

It makes interesting viewing on predicable poor "green" days when there is a high over the UK, foggy, no wind, no sun etc with demand going into the Orange/Red, frequency starts to drop because the generators can keep their speed up, and Nuclear, CCGT, Coal etc and Imports are at their max. It would only take then for one major failure and we'll be turning things off like we did in Aug 2019, and that was summer time!!