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Post by Chakoteya on Sept 25, 2021 8:25:44 GMT
Extinction Rebellion must be having a big celebration now - no more using fossils fuels is one of their demands. Can't afford natural gas to heat our homes and cook the vegetables we've grown ourselves because there's nothing to buy wrapped in plastic in the supermarkets, can't get petrol/diesel products so we aren't polluting the air we breathe. This is the beginning of the world they apparently want to live in. Actually, it strongly resembles the world I grew up in - apart from the single coal fire in the living room heating the back boiler so we had warm water available. It's almost a pity I have double glazing now so I'll miss finding out what frost patterns have formed on the inside of my bedroom window every winter morning. I just hope we get enough sun and wind to power the microwave and kettle (and computers and servers.) Hmm, that reminds me. Must try out whether microwaved knickers are as warm as ones left in the airing cupboard overnight.
Okay, end easy negative rant.
Now that the world is seeing the results of a warmer climate - melting permafrost, rising sealevels, increasing deserts, floods, droughts, people moving in larger numbers to find somewhere they can actually live - let's share what we thing We The People can do, and what sort of governments we will need to vote into power to manage the macro stuff.
I get my milk delivered in glass bottles.
Next!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2021 8:32:03 GMT
Ahh, I remember frost on the window panes - my bedroom had a ventilation brick in the external wall and in winter I would sometimes awake to a dusting of snow over my blankets! I've given up meat - it seems to me to be the single biggest thing I can do to both help the environment and, to be honest, I can't think anymore of animals being bred and killed jsut so I can eat.
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Sept 25, 2021 9:47:01 GMT
Our house (which I haven’t mentioned for a few months) was built in an estate using environmentally sound practices: this includes solar panels and a water tank on every house and the use of passive solar heating to inform the designs. I recently traded in my 9-year-old Prius for a Tesla. I’ve been vegetarian for nearly 8 years - which is probably a bigger step than anything I do with my house or car - and I try to do something new with my environmentalism every year. Admittedly I’m at an age/ stage of life where I can afford to put my money where my mouth is and do things like consider the mileage or footprint my purchases have accumulated or choosing to invest in a more costly investment in the hope that it lasts longer but even doing things like rejecting excessive packaging can make a difference to the amount of rubbish you put out in your bins.
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Post by Chakoteya on Sept 25, 2021 16:31:04 GMT
You have the sort of property I dream about... So jealous.  |
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Sept 25, 2021 20:05:20 GMT
You have the sort of property I dream about... So jealous. We looked around at designs and locations for a while: we were wanting to build or buy something that was environmentally sound and that incorporated a lot of passive heating/cooling to reduce the use of electricity. Then we found the estate we now live on. The whole suburb is built around the environment: gardens have to be at least 60% native plants, building companies had to use materials that did not generate as much waste or that could be recycled, every house has panels and tanks. There are walking tracks through the bush near us that my dog and I use nearly every day. We built on what was the smallest and cheapest block available to us and it’s turned out wonderfully. it’s probably the biggest thing we’ve done and it isn’t something that everyone can do and there were a lot of things we wanted that we couldn’t do because it was just too expensive but this was a good compromise. Like I said, we wanted to be able to put our money where our mouth is. Back on track, though: I’m also a member of a few Zero Waste groups on various social media platforms and there’s always people there who have lots of tips that can help to reduce your impact. |
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Post by barnabaslives on Sept 27, 2021 1:12:36 GMT
I don't know if I know what to do to save the planet anymore. Put a billion dollar cap on corporate profits and personal earnings and arrest anyone worth more than a billion? What was it someone said once? Something like "Thousands is the kind of money you earn, billions is the kind of money you steal"? lol I don't know if it's any consolation - in fact it's Kinda Way Hari Krishna Out There - but I sometimes find solace in this obscure Beatles song www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa3948JzWCc when it comes to not getting to go everywhere I want - in fact I'd like to go so many places it wouldn't be humanly possible to visit them all in a lifetime! The line "The farther one travels, the less one knows" may sound strange (it still does to me half the time), but strangely enough it's one that happens to ring very true for me. The way I tend to think about things and try to digest what I'm seeing in descriptions and scarce photographs, I think it probably is true that I'm getting more out of some of the places I HAVEN'T gone than many of the people who have actually been to these places. At least I hope maybe that makes anyone feel a tiny bit better during lockdown. It does often make me feel a little better. |
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Post by Chakoteya on Oct 4, 2021 9:54:09 GMT
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 4, 2021 9:56:36 GMT
Too little too late, our descendants will curse us from the hellish future they die in.
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Post by mark687 on Oct 4, 2021 12:27:15 GMT
"Don't blame us Kids, blame the 2 generations before us for maintaining 1946-1970 was some sort of Golden Age and doing everything politically/socially possible to wind us back there".
Regards
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