Carbon Footprint - Do you care?

My name is URL · 05-09-2011 10:04PM

I can't imagine Ireland building a nuclear plant any time soon.. even if everybody supported it. The ECB would never allow so much money to be spent on a project like that, and with Germany closing down its nuclear plants at the moment, too!

Best that can happen is we build more connectors with Britain and import nuclear power from there, and that would have its own problems.

Littlehorny · 05-09-2011 10:07PM

Fill the recycle bin every 2 weeks at least you feel your doing a little bit. What gets on my wick is big celebrities- singers, actors etc who get on ther high horse about the enviroment and try to lecture to the general public. When they clock up millions of air miles, own fifteen ferraris and use up enough electricity in there productions to light up a small country. they dont seem to cop the hypocrisy of there statements on carbon footprints.

Poor Uncle Tom · 05-09-2011 10:07PM

Green Mile wrote: »

I'm not an eco-freak or anything but I hate waste. My global footprint is about a .03 on a scale from zero to ten.

It really bugs me that people don't care.

Temperatures dogo up and down over time only by a small amount. At the moment it is fluctuating wildly across the world which is why people care. Take a look at why there is a famine in Somalia.

Again, it bugs me if people don't care. It's not fair that I have to watch what I throw away or have to walk or cycle rather than drive while others speed around in there Beemers.

... go on,,, lets hear it??

I love the way you start off denying your true status.....:D

Icyseanfitz · 05-09-2011 10:19PM

Green Mile wrote: »

I'm not an eco-freak or anything but I hate waste. My global footprint is about a .03 on a scale from zero to ten.

It really bugs me that people don't care.

Temperatures dogo up and down over time only by a small amount. At the moment it is fluctuating wildly across the world which is why people care. Take a look at why there is a famine in Somalia.

Again, it bugs me if people don't care. It's not fair that I have to watch what I throw away or have to walk or cycle rather than drive while others speed around in there Beemers.

... go on,,, lets hear it??

you do know there have been worse famines long before the industrial revolution right? the Sahara used to be a big jungle,

temperatures have always fluctuated wildly that would be why the world has gone through countless ice ages which surprisingly enough we are very over due, if global warming is keeping us away from being in an ice age ive got to say im all for it

Sky King · 05-09-2011 10:21PM

There's a theory that it will fluck around with the gulf stream cooling down ireland actually

Solnskaya · 05-09-2011 10:24PM

Green Mile wrote: »

I'm not an eco-freak or anything but I hate waste. My global footprint is about a .03 on a scale from zero to ten.

It really bugs me that people don't care.

Temperatures dogo up and down over time only by a small amount. At the moment it is fluctuating wildly across the world which is why people care. Take a look at why there is a famine in Somalia.

Again, it bugs me if people don't care. It's not fair that I have to watch what I throw away or have to walk or cycle rather than drive while others speed around in there Beemers.

... go on,,, lets hear it??

1. you hate waste!!! Open your eyes, industry wastes more in a day than the entire population will waste in a year.
2.you global footprint is 0.0, cos you are a microbe on the arse of a flea on a dog in world terms.
3.co2 levels are at a looow level historically, and are irrelevant in any case.
4.the earths temperature is regulated by that big orange thing in the sky, thats why it gets cold at night(and when the sun is less active-google solar flares)
5.even if it was man affected,nobody important gives a toss, they are too busy making money, so live your life and dont waste it fretting about somthing you have no influence over anyway- one lorry produces more co2 than you could ever hope to, and anyway, plants love co2, and they're green?aint they?? Support the real greens-give em lots of co2 to play with.

Icyseanfitz · 05-09-2011 10:28PM

Sky King wrote: »

There's a theory that it will fluck around with the gulf stream cooling down ireland actually

exactly that a "theory"

Sky King · 05-09-2011 10:33PM

Yeah, exactly.

Icyseanfitz · 05-09-2011 10:37PM

Sky King wrote: »

Yeah, exactly.

wait is this some sort of reverse psychology yoke

wild_cat · 05-09-2011 10:37PM

I do!

I don't understand why people don't recycle... We only have so much space to "bury" rubbish before we have to start burning... ahem incinerating it.

All well and good till they want to put the incinerator beside your house

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I do care a lot about the environment. I hate seeing animals go extinct because of urban sprawl and deforestation. Male fish being turned female due to hormones being released from human urine belong to women on the pill and run off from plastic factories etc.

I don't waste water as I know "CLEAN" water can and eventually will become scarce. I don't like oil either due the pollution it creates when something goes wrong and the wars that have been fought to gain control of it etc etc. I have chosen not to have children and I seriously frown on those that have to many... Humans have ruined this planet.

Unfortunately until I build my lovely eco home I won't be completely carbon neutral but I do take great care in keeping it as low as I possibly can at the moment.

Sky King · 05-09-2011 10:38PM

Exactly.

Solnskaya · 05-09-2011 10:38PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

wait is this some sort of reverse psychology yoke

it's not a yoke, he's dead serious.

Heroditas · 05-09-2011 10:39PM

Green Mile wrote: »

Take a look at why there is a famine in Somalia.

If they stopped killing each other for five minutes and spending money on weapons, they might actually be able to feed themselves.

Solnskaya · 05-09-2011 10:40PM

wild_cat wrote: »

I do!

I don't understand why people don't recycle... We only have so much space to "bury" rubbish before we have to start burning... ahem incinerating it.

All well and good till they want to put the incinerator beside your house .

I do care a lot about the environment. I hate seeing animals go extinct because of urban sprawl and deforestation. Male fish being turned female due to hormones being released from human urine belong to women on the pill and run off from plastic factories etc.

I don't waste water as I know "CLEAN" water can and eventually will become scarce. I don't like oil either due the pollution it creates when something goes wrong and the wars that have been fought to gain control of it etc etc. I have chosen not to have children and I seriously frown on those that have to many... Humans have ruined this planet.

Unfortunately until I build my lovely eco home I won't be completely carbon neutral but I do take great care in keeping it as low as I possibly can at the moment.

the genetic pool bids you farewell. darwin would have been proud.

Heroditas · 05-09-2011 10:41PM

wild_cat wrote: »

I have chosen not to have children and I seriously frown on those that have to many... Humans have ruined this planet.

Self-hatred is a terrible thing

wild_cat · 05-09-2011 10:42PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

you do know there have been worse famines long before the industrial revolution right? the Sahara used to be a big jungle,

temperatures have always fluctuated wildly that would be why the world has gone through countless ice ages which surprisingly enough we are very over due, if global warming is keeping us away from being in an ice age ive got to say im all for it

Famine is also another form of population control tbh.

wild_cat · 05-09-2011 10:42PM

Heroditas wrote: »

Self-hatred is a terrible thing

I hate other people not myself.

wild_cat · 05-09-2011 10:43PM

Solnskaya wrote: »

the genetic pool bids you farewell. darwin would have been proud.

You do realise the more educated a woman is the less children she will have?

Stupidity breeds stupidity.

Heroditas · 05-09-2011 10:45PM

wild_cat wrote: »

You do realise the more educated a woman is the less children she will have?

Stupidity breeds stupidity.

Education does not equal intelligence.

Solnskaya · 05-09-2011 10:46PM

wild_cat wrote: »

You do realise the more educated a woman is the less children she will have?

Stupidity breeds stupidity.

and real ignorance doesn't breed at all.:D

wild_cat · 05-09-2011 10:52PM

Solnskaya wrote: »

and real ignorance doesn't breed at all.:D

Have I upset the chronic child poppers or what?

wild_cat · 05-09-2011 10:53PM

Heroditas wrote: »

Education does not equal intelligence.

:rolleyes:

Heroditas · 05-09-2011 11:07PM

wild_cat wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Great comeback.
Look, I can do this too -> :rolleyes:

wild_cat · 05-09-2011 11:11PM

Heroditas wrote: »

Great comeback.
Look, I can do this too -> :rolleyes:

Monkey see... Monkey do???

Greentopia · 05-09-2011 11:12PM

Yes I care. I see it as part of my responsibility as a human being to minimise my impact on our planet.
What other people choose to do I can do nothing about (besides set a good example if I can, without preaching), I can only be responsible for my own actions.

And that's all I'll say on the matter as this is AH and the hive mentality of the cynics, right wing reactionaries, climate change deniers and so on come out in force on threads like this and scoff and ridicule such fanciful ideas of the 'do gooders' and 'tree huggers'. :rolleyes:

Heroditas · 05-09-2011 11:24PM

wild_cat wrote: »

Monkey see... Monkey do???

Monkeys procreate.
They'll be around long after you've ended your existence

Paparazzo · 05-09-2011 11:26PM

I couldn't give a flying fúck.

wild_cat · 05-09-2011 11:32PM

Heroditas wrote: »

Monkeys procreate.
They'll be around long after you've ended your existence

Not if the planet is to ****ed for them to live on

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Why is it such an issue to YOU? That I don't want to have children.. if you don't mind me asking?

Solnskaya · 05-09-2011 11:33PM

Greentopia wrote: »

Yes I care. I see it as part of my responsibility as a human being to minimise my impact on our planet.
What other people choose to do I can do nothing about (besides set a good example if I can, without preaching), I can only be responsible for my own actions.

And that's all I'll say on the matter as this is AH and the hive mentality of the cynics, right wing reactionaries, climate change deniers and so on come out in force on threads like this and scoff and ridicule such fanciful ideas of the 'do gooders' and 'tree huggers'. :rolleyes:

I thought we were still "global warming deniers"? or have the goalposts moved again? Chilly out, don't you agree.

Icyseanfitz · 05-09-2011 11:40PM

Greentopia wrote: »

Yes I care. I see it as part of my responsibility as a human being to minimise my impact on our planet.
What other people choose to do I can do nothing about (besides set a good example if I can, without preaching), I can only be responsible for my own actions.

And that's all I'll say on the matter as this is AH and the hive mentality of the cynics, right wing reactionaries, climate change deniers and so on come out in force on threads like this and scoff and ridicule such fanciful ideas of the 'do gooders' and 'tree huggers'. :rolleyes:

i hate to break this to you but you could live in a tree with no running water electricity or fossil fuel transport and it would mean absolutely fcuk all on a worldwide scale

as for climate change, you cant really deny it tbh its a perfectly natural phenomenon hence the reason we have hot times and ice ages

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