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I wish I was a cartoonist... I'd illustrate one element of earth systems collapse with a steam powered mega trawler dredging the sea bed and billowing thick smoke into the sky. You could be Captain Birdseye at the helm, eating a Big Mac! I don't see those who are worried about the climate (and...

I agree @Sachakins .... on the one hand. But not on the other. Are they largely incompetent fools? Yes. Are the mainstream opposition any better? No. It's like a couple of rival football fans arguing whose team is best. For a given match/season/tournament/decade they both will be at times...

Because everyone else is. It's unprecedented.

It's both sad and interesting to hear the defeatist attitude in @Sachakins posts above. "Sad"... Look at how the world responded to covid in vaccine development. Or to infection generally with antibiotics. To pick just two examples. We have the capacity - and sometimes the proclivity - to...

@bp122 Ha ha - yes, good point RE the plastic waste! It closes the cycle nicely! And if we don't end up sending it overseas in it's "natural" form we can instead send it over the ether in gases after burning it in one of the many UK incinerator sites. Better still, with Xmas on the way we...

Interesting stuff that I wasn't aware, thank you. Seems a good match to the Exxon outlook... Acknowledge the problem, own up to it and explain it clearly, then turn the other way and continue with business as usual. I often wonder what's worse, blissful ignorance, or awareness with...

Nope Yep Exactly

Just to add to the discussion about rafter ventilation. As @Jake pointed out, ventilation at the eaves is a big part of the picture. Often this is achieved with ventilated soffits, or else by the ventilation gaps introduced between the underside of the tiles and the fascia. The type of...

"There is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels. There are some potentially catastrophic events that must be considered. Rainfall might get heavier in some...

And the oft repeated arguments that it's what we consume not what we produce.

I'm no expert, but from some of the reading I've done it's not just global warming and/or climate change. The decimation of the sea and sea life, acidification of sea water, soil degradation, declining and extinctions of animals/insects and the knock on effect to the eco systems they are part...

I think I might be in trouble, I watched it before 9pm!

I thought they would be too busy attending to the kids, doing the washing up, cleaning, laundry, shopping, ironing, and making themselves look and smell nice ready for when hubby gets back from work (or, at weekends, when they back in from woodworking in t' shed)... Besides, they do the...

It's a good job there are no women woodworkers, or else one might have found their way onto the forum to read that and judged it a little sexist...

You don't value my opinion? I haven't given an opinion. I was illustrating that insults and racists remarks should not be used and are unnecessary in discussions such as these... With regards the insults made, I was referring to you. With regards the racism, I was referring to @TRITON (post...

No? Well, you do do a fantastic job of promoting the stereotype of a thick, opinionated, brash, and unconsidered Yorkshireman. I say this in the understanding that a) being insulting is welcomed on this forum (as your many posts illustrate), and b) that racist jibes are welcomed; or is that...

What we do in our little country is buy the goods that are made in places like China.

Meanwhile, thousands across the country leave their heating on and jump into their cars to go watch huge bonfires billow smoke into the night sky, sneaking in a burger or hot dog to boot...

As chance would have it, I got an email today about a petition doing the rounds RE dogs (mainly beagles) bred in factory farms and used in labs (unless they remain in the factory farm for repetitive breeding). As so many dog lovers have come together in this thread, I thought it would be a...

I completely agree with every response on this thread and I too really struggled when I lost my best friend at age 7 a few years back (she was 7, not me!). That being said, I know I risk a huge backlash here, but I feel the need to say it nonetheless... We do awful, horrendous, torturous...