Sick of hearing about green issues?

RobAMerc wrote: »

Anybody else sick to the back teeth of hearing about 'Green' issues ?

I for one have really have had enough of Gormley et al, coming on the radio telling me I am a bad human and that I need to pay more tax in order to fix it.

For God sake people, the economy is in tatters, there are folks on our doorstep as well as across the world starving, our health system is a mess and all these clowns can do is tell me my heating the house is a bad thing ???

Just because you don't like hearing about "green issues" doesn't mean they're not issues.

I've never heard a politician tell me that heating my house is a bad thing. Maybe you mean they've been saying that inefficiently heating your house is a bad thing?

I really just don't give a **** about that sort of stuff

I make a living out of selling renewable energy products.

Do i care.. that would be a yes.

If you had any sence you'd do the sums and realise all these measures are money saving for you.

caoibhin wrote: »

Its the hippies in socks and sandals tut tutting at the working class flying on holidays to Spain thats a sickener.

*Fires up ciggy*

Yup.. we should burn hippies.. they're carbon neutral i think

Yer man in Germany had the right idea i think

RobAMerc wrote: »

Anybody else sick to the back teeth of hearing about 'Green' issues ?

I for one have really have had enough of Gormley et al, coming on the radio telling me I am a bad human and that I need to pay more tax in order to fix it.

For God sake people, the economy is in tatters, there are folks on our doorstep as well as across the world starving, our health system is a mess and all these clowns can do is tell me my heating the house is a bad thing ???

+1. I'm sick to the back teeth of beardy bastards telling me how to live my life. I'd nearly cut down a load of trees just to sickin them even more.

* rant over *

When I'm back in Ireland, in 2 weeks, I'm gonna try do my bits for the environment.
C'mon lads and gals, its not hard to recycle, sure it take an extra 2 minutes of your time, but this stuff is important, if we start doing it now then who knows, maybe the next generation will JUST DO IT!!

I'm gonna start with those new bulbs (provided they're still deemed safe), replace every bulb in the house with them, even if they save me a tenner a month on electricity, well, its a tenner saved and its better for the environment!

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

I really just don't give a **** about that sort of stuff

Aww, that's nice. Thanks for posting

Do you like to throw crisp packets over your shoulder and toss cigarette butts out car windows?

ANYWAY, i am not sick of hearing about so called green issues at all. i think it's healthy for society to wake up and take responsibility for all the muck and waste and pollution it creates. Remember back 10 or 15 years when we were landfilling everything except bottles and milk cartons?

As a child i remember the weekly family refuse haul was 5 or 6 full black sacks (sometimes more) lined up against the wall by the front gate. When our telly went bang or an old bed needed to be dumped, we'd drag them up in the back of the car to Dunsink Tiphead and watch them tumble down into 40 foot deep pits where scavengers would pick through their booty, dodging falling rubbish with each precarious step.

Whether or not you care about the environment is really irrelevant. It's rightly here to stay as an issue. And while i don't agree with anyone being forced to upgrade their house's insulation, i think it's fair enough for any potential buyer of your house to be able to easily see how energy efficient it would be

colly10 wrote: »

+1 - The greens got my #1 because they do very good work locally, they'll never get a vote off me again, plenty of scientist dispute global warming anyway, they just don't get the press coverage because the media loves the disaster story

You gave them a vote because they do good work in your locality but you'll never vote for them again. Why?

What 'good work' made you vote for them in the first place? And why lump all green issues under one "Global Warming" banner?

Glowing wrote: »

what's wrong with looking towards other means of cleaner energy generation - to avoid sulphur emissions, methane emissions, diesel particulates, nitrous oxides etc?

Not to mention the fact that fossil fuels are not inexhaustible. They're gonna run out sooner or later, people may as well start beginning to adapt to the alternatives now.

I don't like hippies as much as the next man, but I don't understand why people would forgo the chance to not throw away money on e.g. uneconomical houses/appliances/vehicles, or live a more economical life in general, for the sake of giving two fingers to the Greens/hippies.

I got a list of all things that need to be recyled, now I chuck them in the black bin. The faster we kill this silly planet off the better.

Death to mankind I say!

Not sick of hearing about green issues but then I really like this planet.
I understand that people are unwilling to part with their earnings but there is a lot you can do anyway.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle