Climate change policy

[paulrbarnard]

I wish I was a cartoonist...

I'd draw a picture of the UK floating on a giant verdant lily-pad leaf, sunlit, populated by smug happy vegans, wearing rainbow clothes, tripping over cow-free meadows rich in wildflowers to find a lovely spot for their hummus and tofu picnics, before returning to their electric cars to drive home to their passive houses to sleep between non-bleached hydroponically grown cotton sheets.
Benign but equally smug political leaders would sit in Westminster, secure and happy in the knowledge that they were instrumental in bringing this carbon zero nirvana into existence by eliminating the 1% of the world's carbon that Great Britain produces....

....the whole would be floating on a black stinking sea of pollution engendered by the rest of the world producing the remaining 99%.

I entered your ‘prompt’ into chatGPT

 

[Chris152]

 

[Krome10]

I wish I was a cartoonist...

I'd draw a picture of the UK floating on a giant verdant lily-pad leaf, sunlit, populated by smug happy vegans, wearing rainbow clothes, tripping over cow-free meadows rich in wildflowers to find a lovely spot for their hummus and tofu picnics, before returning to their electric cars to drive home to their passive houses to sleep between non-bleached hydroponically grown cotton sheets.
Benign but equally smug political leaders would sit in Westminster, secure and happy in the knowledge that they were instrumental in bringing this carbon zero nirvana into existence by eliminating the 1% of the world's carbon that Great Britain produces....

....the whole would be floating on a black stinking sea of pollution engendered by the rest of the world producing the remaining 99%.

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 suffering) as smug. Quite the opposite. I see them as scared and alarmed and caring.

Donald Trump and similar sceptics... Now that's what I'd call smug both in their stupid appearance and ideology.

PS - feel free to do a ChatGPT of that

 

[paulrbarnard]

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 see don't see those who are worried about the climate (and suffering) as smug. Quite the opposite. I see them as scared and alarmed.

Donald Trump and similar sceptics... Now that's what I'd call smug both in their stupid appearance and ideology.

PS - feel free to do a ChatGPT of that

Interestingly you can’t use Big Mac in the prompt. I had to change it to burger.

 

[selectortone]

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Interestingly you can’t use Big Mac in the prompt. I had to change it to burger.

ChatGPT must be building an interesting profile of you with these bizarre requests

 

[Spectric]

I wonder if they will use net zero as an excuse for all the bad roads and potholes because Tarmac comes from coal or petrol and asphalt from perol or crude oil all of which are on the extinction list to clean up the planet.

 

[RobinBHM]

I wonder if they will use net zero as an excuse for all the bad roads and potholes because Tarmac comes from coal or petrol and asphalt from perol or crude oil all of which are on the extinction list to clean up the planet.

I dont remember potholes being as bad during the last Labour government

I guess it mustve 14 years of the last lot eh

 

[Lons]

I dont remember potholes being as bad during the last Labour government

I guess it mustve 14 years of the last lot eh

Might also have something to do with there being around 30m vehicles on the roads in 2010 but now almost 42m, an increase of some 40%. Additionally the average weight of HGVs in 2010 was around 26 metric tonnes and in 2024 it's over 41 mt. That's a significant impact to consider.

 

[Spectric]

Additionally the average weight of HGVs in 2010 was around 26 metric tonnes and in 2024 it's over 41 mt.

And of course the EV's are heavier as well .

 

[John Brown]

And of course the EV's are heavier as well .

So are the ICEs. SUVs are heavier than Ford Fiestas. Apparently it's fairly insignificant, HGVs are the big road destroyers.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Most of the worst roads here you couldn't get an HGV on, not a large one, anyway. The main problem is nothing more than neglect.

 

[John Brown]

Most of the worst roads here you couldn't get an HGV on, not a large one, anyway. The main problem is nothing more than neglect.

I can't argue with that.