The Environmental Thread

[Beanz]

The protesters in London are typical privileged cunts. Hypocrites. This gives them the chance to play the victim. "We're the last generation, we've had our future stolen" (sickening).

Every era in history has been littered with complete and utter cunts who believe everything begins and ends with them.

Yeah obviously all of them. From the kids to the grannies its all down to some bloke in a hut in Africa anyway

[Gandalf]

The protesters in London are typical privileged cunts. Hypocrites. This gives them the chance to play the victim. "We're the last generation, we've had our future stolen" (sickening).

Every era in history has been littered with complete and utter cunts who believe everything begins and ends with them.

Yeah obviously all of them. From the kids to the grannies its all down to some bloke in a hut in Africa anyway

Look at the population of India where the majority defacate in the streets. It is far more than some bloke in a hut. The Ganges is a horrible mess and disease rampant. It is far more than greenhouse emissions. Mass overpopulation is a real problem and is going to get much worse. It is something some people are in denial about.

http://theconversation.com/ganges-se...r-worse-108146

[Fenster]

The protesters in London are typical privileged cunts. Hypocrites. This gives them the chance to play the victim. "We're the last generation, we've had our future stolen" (sickening).

Every era in history has been littered with complete and utter cunts who believe everything begins and ends with them.

Yeah obviously all of them. From the kids to the grannies its all down to some bloke in a hut in Africa anyway

Sorry I forgot Lyle's favourite - #notall.

It's more white than a Tommy Robinson shindig. I just can't stand the hypocrisy (the litter they've left behind/gadgets/travelling in cars, trains and planes), they're enjoying themselves playing victim and causing trouble, holier-than-thou usual suspects who'll eff-off back to their 99.9% white middle-class lives.

It's not the message I have a problem with just the people (they'll be at Glastonbury and fly off to Malawi/Goa for a holiday).

If it was thousands of bods living in mud huts who were genuinely suffering i'd roar them on.

[Memphis]

Without too much (read any) data gathering I've formed the opinion that it's too late to save the planet. We keep getting warning shots that something big is going to happen and I don't think anyone would be surprised if it was lurking just around the corner.

There are too many of us. We all want feeding and it's feeding us that causes the biggest problems. Land for meat to live, land to grow food to feed the meat, land for oil (take your pick of what kind). Do a search on what causes deforestation and you'll be hit by lots of results saying logging is the 2nd biggest cause. Weird result, just tell, me whats actually the problem.

We'll be wiped off the Earth sooner rather than later and the Earth will go on to maybe repair the damage, or limp on until it's death once we are long gone.

We can and should all do our bit of course and I'd like to think we do. But it isn't Joe Bloggs forgetting to put his recycling out and then thinking fuck it, I'm burning it out the back that's causing the grief is it. Asking Joe Bloggs if he fancies trying recycled shit paper is one thing. Asking Johnny Boardroom if he fancies stopping making billions upon billions of quids is quite another.

[Fenster]

That's what makes me laugh with this mob, the UK is apparently one of the best gaffs in the world for this environment lark. As though causing uproar here will make a jot of difference to China, Russia or India.

And now some rich, privileged Swedish teenager hopping the wag is the new messiah. Do me a favour.

[Gandalf]

I don't know. There is still cling film on everything. Why do they do that horrible multi pack stuff with each tiny item individually wrapped too? Then there is the congestion which is worse than ever. Then there is the fact that the UK has almost no trees. My wife mocks me about that when I talk about the Village greens and the open fields: "But there are no trees!" I wince conceding that she is correct and we cut them all down and never replaced them. Plus the people are fat and eat too much. One has no excuse to be fat. Very unsound.

[walrus]

https://www.rd.com/health/wellness/f...using-plastic/


Ya I know the link is from the readers digest but when you try to look up the the effects of plastic I come across too many “we are all going to die from plastic” articles but there are a lot of studies coming out about the harm plastic does not just to the planet and fishy’s but to us. It is a nasty substance but it’s very difficult not to use it. When your out and about it can be difficult to find a drink not surrounded by plastic. Sometimes you can find a can. All my healthy juices are sorrounded by plastic. Even the plastics with BPA contain other shit that kills you, or is at least unhealthy. I often wonder how many mass adopted items we use cause harm but are such a major part of the economy nothing will be done about it. Microwaves are a good thing but a scientist at my wife’s job will not use one as he says using a microwave causes a change in the molecular structure of the respective foods we put in. Our water supply is loaded with anti biotics and anti depressants, I have hang nail, when it comes right down to it we are doomed. I’d like to say let’s clean stuff up for the future generation but fuck them the baby boomers left us this mess I’m not cleaning up after them. And I’m typing this on my phone made of plastic.

[TitoFan]

Millennials need to quit their fucking whining.

Seriously... we're not going to abolish plastic tomorrow or any time in the foreseeable future. We've become too dependent on it. What we need to do is parallel efforts to: a) reduce the amount of plastics used in manufacturing, and b) continue to find ways to effectively recycle plastic into things we need.

The (a) part involves things like reducing the thickness of water bottles (already at an annoying "thinness"), rethink how we do our packaging, and just plain use our engineering know-how to lessen the amounts of plastic being manufactured for everyday things. The (b) part is even more exciting, and we've all read about road-building technologies in places like India and Indonesia, where asphalt is substituted with some kind of aggregate using recycled plastic to make roads. These roads are reportedly better and cheaper. As usual, the holdup is always the bureaucratic part of the whole affair.

[Beanz]

That's what makes me laugh with this mob, the UK is apparently one of the best gaffs in the world for this environment lark. As though causing uproar here will make a jot of difference to China, Russia or India.

And now some rich, privileged Swedish teenager hopping the wag is the new messiah. Do me a favour.

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