Are you concerned about the destruction of the natural world and climate change?

Buying stuff only when needed. Repairing where possible.

buying local food.

composting and growing our own veg (obviously only goes so far with the veg growing, but we are composting all good scraps).

recycling as much as possible, but trying to generate less waste by following point 1.

what are you doing if anything?

The system isn’t perfect.

Yet it’s not the catastrophe people talk about oas of their opinions were facts.

id hazard a guess that my knowledge of farmers and farming is a tad more than your own, I can honestly say that slurry is rarely spread “just because a tank is full”. There are occasions where cowboys will, but the vast majority plan ahead and don’t fall into this category.

Who asked you to?

Plus there’s maybe 40-50 location nationwide where the government intentionally pump raw untreated sewage into rivers or sea as no treatment capacity exists.

The fact of you enjoying or hating my posts is so far down in my thinking that it’s non existent.

I’m not even interested in your opinion of what my “true colours” are, I’m just calling life as I see it, I’m presuming your vegan based on your reaction, please accept my condolences

Youd best mute my posts, because they’re not changing any time soon.

Fossil fuel extraction and consumption are the major damaging sectors.

We don’t yet have a technology capable of replacing them.

Taxing them excessively will just collapse government after government as voters aren’t prepared to tear down their society when no alternative exists.

I often wonder will we see whistleblowers coming forward from within the petrochemical sectors as happened when big tobacco was taken into task for knowingly misleading people as to the health dangers of tobacco. I see Shell etc selling “carbon neutral” petrol, something that’s a physical impossibility, extracting, processing and burning petrol is a linear carbon exercise, no part of the system sequesters carbon, it cannot be carbon neutral.

similarly the airline industry cannot be carbon neutral, it has no carbon sequestration associated.

Average Chinese person has lower carbon footprint than Irish citizens.

the whole whataboutery pointing at third world countries is tiresome at best.

Orange Juice is healthy? That's a big jump. It has vit C, potassium, etc.... but otherwise it has about as much sugar as coca cola.

That is the harsh reality. There is no magic bullet. Western societies have been built on the premise of ever increasing revenue, growth and markets. That is simply unsustainable (for a variety of reasons). Very crudely speaking, there's probably 2 ways to fix this.

1 = A collective adjustment on demands and expectations to account for this (would be challenged by many as being the most hated of all C words (Communism))

2 - Survival of the fittest, expect to see concern over natural resources leading to disparate experiences based on wealth and power and the likely conflict that would come as a consequence of that.

Or maybe someone else can suggest a path from where we are that doesn't involve either of these 2 futures in a significant way.

What do you mean by 'ridiculously long way'? Do you mean in terms of population growth, time, GDP?

Some would argue that economic growth has been allowed to advance ridiculously uncontrolled to this point. The Amazon has decreased in size by 20% in the last 50 years.

The rate at which we are consuming natural resources is already unsustainable. Part of the reason that the climate conversation is such an issue is that too many stakeholders consider anything which is likely to run out after their lifetime or professional interest as not being a concern.

We need cohesive plans and there are no signs where they might come from.

That is the point I have made repeatedly, but where are they likely to come from before it becomes a necessity rather than trying to optimise the resources the planet has presented to us.

The last 18 months have shown us just how many people don't want to follow the science, it really makes be very skeptical that anything worth while will be done. But people line up to denigrate Greta for pointing this out.

I'm an Australian.

The comment was premised on the fact that the Chinese don't give a sh​it and neither does India. An Indian owned mining company (Adani) just got going in Qld and plans to export 10M tonnes of coal to India a year for the next 3 decades. As for China:

"China's provinces still planning over 100 GW of new coal projects - Greenpeace"

The make noises about becoming CO2 zero by 2050, but I expect to see flying pigs doing mach 2.2 before then.

So if India and China are not joining the party, everyone else on the planet might as well find a comfy chair, put their feet up and light a cigar and blow smoke rings.

Let's all just go back to neolithic living. After your fifth dead child in a row, you might start to have regrets. Anyone know how much Chinese made stuff is in a modern Hospital? I recently bought a vacuum cleaner made in Germany as I didn't want to buy Chinese. I recently bought a tool from a good German company. When it arrived, it became apparent it was made in China. What make and model of phone do you use, by the way?

Are you real? I just pointed out I have been trying to not buy Chinese goods. It's got nothing to do with concerns over CO2, but it's exactly the same thing you have been calling for ad nauseam.

We are not going back to the neolithic. You seem to be in the nut-job climate catastrophist camp, whose bleatings and chicken littleing are near comic.

Yeah, yeah, sure we are, and you're in the , eternal sunlit uplands and opportunity on the horizon head in sand camp. Did you see the videos on Twitter from NY last night?

If you had a kid, and every time they were thirsty, they poured a full glass of milk, took a mouthful and poured the rest down the sink, would you tell them to stop if you still had 6 more litres in the fridge, or would you wait until you were down to the last one?

The rate we are using resources is not sustainable, aside from the associated damage harvesting and burning these resources is doing.