Crematoriums should be next to old people homes, there'd be less travelling and the heat generated could be pumped back into the home. "stick another stiff on the fire luv, it's bloody perishing."
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This is exactly why some people are sceptical about global warming news
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Oxbridge
offlineMemberPascal's wager comes in here.
We go on the basis that man-made climate change is a reality and act to curb it. By 2100, it urns out we were wrong and we needn't have bothered. What have we lost? Not a lot, maybe a few years of economic growth, though maybe the technologies we developed to deal with it have more than made up for that.
Or we go on the basis that it's all bollocks, we don't really know for sure and Wayland's teacher was a berk. Then it 2100, it turns out we were wrong and we really did need to act but now it's too late and human civilisation is irreversibly fucked, along with most plant and animal life.
Or we just stick to knob gags...
Posted 5 months ago # -
waylandsmithy
offlineMember2100? Fuck that. I'm ordering that Land Cruiser.
Good luck persuading China, Oxy. There's fuck-all point shooting ourselves in the foot while they're building endless coal power stations.
Posted 5 months ago # -
beau-jolly
onlineMember<Little squeeky voice> We are influencing the rate of climate change not causing global warming.
I haven't heard much yet about the theory that we in the west have had our industrial revolutions, benefitted from them and then regretted some of the side effects. Emerging economies are therefore alledgedly being supressed from developing so as to avoid the pitfalls but at the same time avoid the benefits.
Posted 5 months ago # -
Squudge
offlineMemberPlant some trees.
...and stop rewarding people for cutting down 500-year old hardwoods.
...and educate some of the thicker conservationists on diversity. We should be harvesting seeds from the areas where the local climate is changing fastest and moving species around (yes, that sounds arrogant, it is 'management')- and yes, a couple of good volcanos and Yellowstone going bang (it is way overdue), wipe out all our efforts on emissions curbing. Doesn't mean that we shouldn't make an effort though.
Posted 5 months ago # -
Squudge
offlineMemberPlant some trees.
...and stop rewarding people for cutting down 500-year old hardwoods.
...and educate some of the thicker conservationists on diversity. We should be harvesting seeds from the areas where the local climate is changing fastest and moving species around (yes, that sounds arrogant, it is 'management')- and yes, a couple of good volcanos and Yellowstone going bang (it is way overdue), wipe out all our efforts on emissions curbing. Doesn't mean that we shouldn't make an effort though.
Climate changes naturally and catastrophically every so often, but the scale of the changes we have brought about on our own is rather surprising (look at the american 'dust bowl' in the 1920s, and the amount of forests we have cleared worldwide). Do we really have to make things quite so shitty unnecessarily?
PS: I don't believe the Thames barrier is man enough for the job. But life will go on (not all of it mind).
Posted 5 months ago #
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