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Agree with this, but the key word is "rapid" - it doesn't seem to be in the lexicon of most governments, unfortunately...

I made mine out of an old hot water cylinder - they work well but I find that if there's a lot of wind rock, they can cut through the stems of things. Still a lot better than nothing though. I think it's the taste that the slugs object to and I can't say I blame them - we've got copper pans in...

Hi Phil, The ones you're showing there are a specially bred variety, not the normal local wild variety and therefore probably not as good for the wildlife. Foxglove seed are really easy to collect from the wild and would be a far better (and cheaper) way to go about this. There are hundreds of...

I have them on my workshop and office, very, very pleased with them. I'd stick with a purlin in the middle of the span if I were you - if the shed doesn't have one already, it would be easy enough to hang one from joist hangers, as long as the purlin itself isn't stupidly long. If the worst...

Yes, I agree, the greener the planet, the more CO2 gets used, but at the moment we're stripping the planet of as much greenery as we can, while pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere, where it creates global warming and encourages the destruction of yet more greenery through forest fires... I...

But what is the ammonia used for? Enhancing plant growth. It's made from fossil fuels (Fritz Haber process) and excess ammonia is now recognised as not good for the environment. Again, plenty of natural ammonia exists, it's a breakdown product of urine for a start, but we're using far too...

Yes it does. If there's a level of CO2 in the atmosphere, a plant uses some of it and grows, then dies and decomposes, the net CO2 level remains the same over time. If CO2 is introduced artificially, the plant grows, dies and decomposes, giving up the CO2 into the atmosphere as it does so...

If not for generations to come? How about we start thinking about those generations? CO2 is essential for life, granted, but it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Why, given your previous reasoning that plants are now flourishing better than ever? (Unless of course you count all...

Only because we lack the political will. If there was a genuine push to apply the funding, train and educate, it could be done. A defeatist attitude just plays into the hands of the people who are making money from fossil fuels. This is a global problem, we need to stop thinking of it in...

Just had a birthday, got some book tokens - have ordered your recommendation. Thank you!

Let's just hope it's not a coral island then! (Unless you plan on repurposing the steel boat you ran aground in...)

Well I doubt if many people do read the entire manifesto of the party they vote for, but that has no bearing whatever on whether or not said party goes back on anything in that manifesto. If they say they will do something and then don't, they have failed to uphold their pledges. Of course...

You're saying we shouldn't do things that we know to be right? Interesting point of view...

And how do we handle it when things they promise to do to get themselves elected never get done? This is not a dig at the current government (although they have proved themselves masters of incompetence) but at all parties... That being a given, do we still call it a democracy?

Even if that's the case, maybe sometimes we should do things just because we know they're the right things to do...

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Fair point on the lignite mines, but that still doesn't mean we should stop trying to mitigate climate change. There seems to be a widely held belief that because some countries are not pulling their weight on this, neither should we. If that holds true, nothing ever changes - imagine if we'd...

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Just to be historically accurate here, Canute got a bad press for doing something good: What he was actually trying (and succeeded in) proving was that he did not have the power to stop the tide and that he was just a man with temporal authority, not divine... Also of course, on Sunak's folly...

I think you're completely missing the point there - it's more to do with the landscape being dry enough to burn uncontrollably. I don't think the number of muppets is increasing exponentially, just the opportunities for fire to take hold.