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[Doctor Gollum]

Didn't some of them glue themselves to the DLR?

You know, the electric, public, mass transport system.

The kind of thing they want us to give up our cars for.

Which they stopped from running.

The retards.

And presumably some do gooder had them turn the power off 

[Varche]

How is recycling of all glass and plastic bottles going?  Badly in a word. How hard would it be for the UK to have an effective scheme.?

Why isnt Britain tackling it properly? Too much inconvenience, easier and cheaper just to throw them away.  Just like Extinction Rebellion..........

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Listening to Talk radio in the car this morning. Some interesting facts were revealed about the protesters.
One of the leading lights - a double barrelled name and a very expensive education - has an Instagram account full of pics of his several foreign holidays he takes each year. 
They then went on to discuss the school kids who went on strike to protest about climate change and how some of the schools encouraged them to do so.
One such school has a headmaster who was proud of his pupils for joining the strike. The school website has a big feature about him taking the pupils to the Caribbean last year to play netball with the local children. 
When kids are being educated by retards like this, what hope is there for the future ? 

[Lizzie Zoom]

Listening to Talk radio in the car this morning. Some interesting facts were revealed about the protesters.
One of the leading lights - a double barrelled name and a very expensive education - has an Instagram account full of pics of his several foreign holidays he takes each year. 
They then went on to discuss the school kids who went on strike to protest about climate change and how some of the schools encouraged them to do so.
One such school has a headmaster who was proud of his pupils for joining the strike. The school website has a big feature about him taking the pupils to the Caribbean last year to play netball with the local children. 
When kids are being educated by retards like this, what hope is there for the future ? 

Yes, it is all madness!

No doubt most of those particular protestors also have cars, have a house full of electronic hardware, and buy everything fully covered in packaging.

If they did what they preached I would have more time for them

[Varche]

All good points BUT it is in mankinds nature to abuse and pillage the only * earth we have got. Someone has to make a start on applying the brakes. It will never ever come from the top.

Did anyone see the sea lions on planet from the air plunging to their deaths? Truly shocking. But then who cares about nature or the environment so long as we have our social media, burgers and our cars!

* only earth. One day the very rich will be able to go to another planet leaving the scum (us) here on what is left of our planet.

[STEMO]

They wanna sit outside Jaime's, I reckon he contributes a lot more methane than most.

[Nick W]

How is recycling of all glass and plastic bottles going?  Badly in a word. How hard would it be for the UK to have an effective scheme.?

Why isnt Britain tackling it properly? Too much inconvenience, easier and cheaper just to throw them away.  Just like Extinction Rebellion..........

We need to think about why we're recycling stuff, and whether it's worth doing.


For instance, recycling paper is a horribly dirty process that uses large amounts of water and bleach to produce a low quality product(most paper is recycled into newsprint or packaging) whereas new is made from forests grown as a crop. The reason to recycle glass is not because it's made from a diminishing resource(the planet is hardly short of sand), but that melting an existing bottle into a new one uses fewer resources than making  new one and that the old ones won't bulk out landfill sites forever. Although reusing them dozens of times like milk or beer bottles used to be is an even better use. Plastics should be recycled wherever possible because they are made from diminishing resources(they're the proper use for oil rather than just burning it) and again they just take up space. Batteries are made from nasty chemicals that can be reused which is far better than hoping they don't leach into the ground.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Conservation and recycling is common sense and predates the climate change mania.
These protesters are claiming that we have 12 years to save the world, and after that it will be too late.
In 1989 the UN issued an emergency warning that by the year 2000 many islands in the Pacific would disappear under water.
They didn't, and in 2019 they till haven't.
Regardless of the various arguments, if the powers that be knew for a fact that the situation is as bad as is claimed, then all air travel would have ben banned long ago, as would non essential use of private vehicles.
To reduce carbon emissions to zero as the protesters are demanding, we would need to revert to a pre industrial age, and I cant imagine they would be at all happy with that.

[Varche]

On the tv it said an area of land the size of a football pitch vanishes every 45 minutes as the sea level rises. I cannot verify that but it may well be true.

We don't have rubbish collection at our house here in Spain. Everything has to be taken to bins. Recycling is easy. Different coloured bins plus the black ones for landfill. Often some lazy gits pu cardboard and bottles in it. Add to that the bottles ( plastic and glass ) just lobbed out of cars and you realise some people dont give a damn.

On the BBC this morning question was asked why UK supermarkets , shops do not have recycling with in effect deposit schemes. Other countries do it and those of us old enough can remember deposit on pop bottles. It is because no one gives a damn and it would cost someone. We cannot be bothered. Same applies on a larger scale.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

The cherry on the cake. The high priestess of moronic hypocrisy Dame Emma Thomson has flown 5400 miles to join in the protest.

[Doctor Gollum]

On the tv it said an area of land the size of a football pitch vanishes every 45 minutes as the sea level rises. I cannot verify that but it may well be true.

We don't have rubbish collection at our house here in Spain. Everything has to be taken to bins. Recycling is easy. Different coloured bins plus the black ones for landfill. Often some lazy gits pu cardboard and bottles in it. Add to that the bottles ( plastic and glass ) just lobbed out of cars and you realise some people dont give a damn.

On the BBC this morning question was asked why UK supermarkets , shops do not have recycling with in effect deposit schemes. Other countries do it and those of us old enough can remember deposit on pop bottles. It is because no one gives a damn and it would cost someone. We cannot be bothered. Same applies on a larger scale.

There could be money to be made from the effort...

Part of the problem is a lack of consistency between authorities. Our LA has always tried to lead by example. We have a garden waste bin, a land fill bin and a recycling bin for card/glass/plastics. They sort it so we don't have to. It's easy to use and works well, even with fortnightly collections. Yet other LAs have six or seven bins and still don't collect half what we can put in ours

[Bigron]

Conservation and recycling is common sense and predates the climate change mania.
These protesters are claiming that we have 12 years to save the world, and after that it will be too late.
In 1989 the UN issued an emergency warning that by the year 2000 many islands in the Pacific would disappear under water.
They didn't, and in 2019 they till haven't.
Regardless of the various arguments, if the powers that be knew for a fact that the situation is as bad as is claimed, then all air travel would have ben banned long ago, as would non essential use of private vehicles.
To reduce carbon emissions to zero as the protesters are demanding, we would ALL DIE, as no plant life would survive and neither would we and the animals.....

Ron.

[STEMO]

On the tv it said an area of land the size of a football pitch vanishes every 45 minutes as the sea level rises. I cannot verify that but it may well be true.

We don't have rubbish collection at our house here in Spain. Everything has to be taken to bins. Recycling is easy. Different coloured bins plus the black ones for landfill. Often some lazy gits pu cardboard and bottles in it. Add to that the bottles ( plastic and glass ) just lobbed out of cars and you realise some people dont give a damn.

On the BBC this morning question was asked why UK supermarkets , shops do not have recycling with in effect deposit schemes. Other countries do it and those of us old enough can remember deposit on pop bottles. It is because no one gives a damn and it would cost someone. We cannot be bothered. Same applies on a larger scale.

That tv programme was fairly clear about what the future holds if we don't do something. But, as I said to the wife, individuals won't take it upon themselves, partly because it would feel futile. There will only be change when it is forced on us by governments. That could work well in certain parts of the world, but in a democracy? Where, if you don't like being told what to do, you vote in someone less bothered? Consensus across all parties would be necessary to implement any changes here.

[Varche]

And concensus across countries.

If you superglue your hand to the road, how do you go to the toilet?!

[STEMO]

And concensus across countries.

If you superglue your hand to the road, how do you go to the toilet?!

You make sure you do it next to a manhole cover.