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Thunder Bolt

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In the 60s the paint was removed with nobody having a hissy fit.

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Curious Orange

Punxsatawney Phil
Jul 5, 2003
10,225
On NSC for over two decades...
I agree that JSO’s tactics are not endearing their cause to many people but whataboutery is not the answer.

Nor is suggesting that the UK’s contribution to CC is ”negligible ”. That view belies a misunderstanding of the indirect impact the UK has on CC by virtue of our industrial/overseas development and trade. UK based consumption drives emissions across the Globe - nearly half of the UK carbon footprint is from emissions released overseas YET are not included in national emissions reporting or targeted by domestic climate change policy - for example:
  • The UK exports around 60% of the over 2.5 million tonnes of plastic packaging waste it creates. Turkey is the main destination for this waste. British plastic waste is being dumped and burned in Turkey, causing “irreversible and shocking” environmental and human health impacts.

  • China is the world’s leading nation in CO2 admissions and has the largest industrialised GDP (nearly 40% of China’s GPD is from value added industrial output) , yet nearly 20% of China’s GDP until recently was from exported manufactured goods bound for markets like the UK. Despite global economic conditions along with isolationist and protectionist policies suppressing the Chinese export market, the UK still imported nearly £60 billion worth of manufactured products to the UK last year - goods demanded by British consumers that contribute towards the carbon footprint caused by China’s productive industries.

  • The UK investments with British taxpayer’s money in overseas fossil fuel companies in several African countries also contribute to emissions overseas, including £32.2m investment to build a power plant in Guinea that uses so-called Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) which has been described as the “world’s dirtiest and most polluting” type of marine fuel - ( HFO has been banned for use in the Arctic by the UN )

The more that Britain deindustrialises and decarbonises domestic food, goods and services production, the more we rely on offshoring to meet domestic demands - climate policy and public perceptions of our responsibility based on purely domestic emissions doesn’t account for Britain’s global contribution to climate change through our carbon footprint overseas.


I thought you might pipe up with something along those lines, and I don't agree with it to be honest. I'd most definitely prefer we produced and consumed more local goods to reduce movements around the world (it is utterly stupid that we are importing coal and steel to this country for instance), however the fact of the matter is we are being undercut by foreign nations who don't have as stringent controls as us - it is wrong headed for us to try to take the blame for what they are choosing to do.

Yes, we could also choose not to buy from them, but it would be at the cost of impoverishing our own economy, and it certainly wouldn't help theirs either.

I take a mild offence at being accused of whataboutery when I did no such thing, but that is your opinion, and you are allowed to express it.
 
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Zeberdi

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Oct 20, 2022
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I thought you might pipe up with something along those lines, and I don't agree with it to be honest. I'd most definitely prefer we produced and consumed more local goods to reduce movements around the world (it is utterly stupid that we are importing coal and steel to this country for instance), however the fact of the matter is we are being undercut by foreign nations who don't have as stringent controls as us - it is wrong headed for us to try to take the blame for what they are choosing to do.

Yes, we could also choose not to buy from them, but it would be at the cost of impoverishing our own economy, and it certainly wouldn't help theirs either.

I take a mild offence at being accused of whataboutery when I did no such thing, but that is your opinion, and you are allowed to express it.

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one on this thread who is aware of our carbon footprint or the already devastating impacts of CC on low lying Countries.

Also not sure what you are actually disagreeing with - What I posted are widely verified facts about our foreign trade and investments/waste disposal rather than opinion.

Imo it is whataboutery to use immigration as an excuse for not worrying about the Climate crisis - however, if you don’t accept the whataboutery of your immigration argument above, at least accept that if you want to include “immigration” in the Climate debate, then it should be done in a way that is relevant because Climate change is already on the way to becoming the biggest driver of immigration in the next 30 years:

 
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Curious Orange

Punxsatawney Phil
Jul 5, 2003
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I'm not trying to upset you @Zeberdi, I knew you had an interest in the subject from other posts you have made elsewhere, and a different take on it to me, so I was unsurprised when you commented on my post, which I fully accept you have the right to do. So I apologise if my choice of words were taken the wrong way.

You presumably do accept that every country, and indeed individual make their own choices about who they trade with and how they produce goods and services? Which is my point - we aren't forcing other countries to trade with us or anyone else, nor are we setting their climate policies for them, despite the fact that it can disadvantage us economically, and has stripped away out manufacturing base.

No I don't want to introduce illegal immigration, private ownership of utilities, or culture wars into the climate debate! Anybody should be able to see I was merely pointing out that those are examples of political issues that are likely more important to the general population of the UK than the climate and the JSO idiots.

We shouldn't do ourselves down as a nation on the climate issue, as it is plain to see with every EV on the road, every new solar panel installed, and wind farm erected, that we are heading in the right direction.
 


Goldstone Guy

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Nov 18, 2006
338
Hove
This is such a side-show. There are far more troubling things for us to be concerned about as a nation than the UK's negligible contribution to climate change, like how we've allowed our public utilities to be owned and run down by private companies and foreign states; how we've allowed ourselves to be distracted by trivial and nonsensical culture wars; and how we seem unable to deal sensibly with illegal immigration, which does a disservice to those people who have taken the time and made the effort to come here through legitimate means and make positive contributions to our society.

I worry that the actions of JSO are counterproductive and may actually put people off doing the small things that they could do to help improve our environment.
Agreed about public utilities, although seeing how the government run the NHS doesn't fill me with hope re the water companies being publicly owned. We need to elect a competent government for that plan to work.

As for illegal migration what we've tried unsuccessfully to deal with so far has been nothing, a mere trickle of people. Wait until Bangladesh is under water and most of Africa is uninhabitable, then we'll get some proper illegal immigration. That's if you believe the scientists, which I do. I saw a T-shirt recently which said something like "Every disaster movie starts with someone ignoring a scientist". I don't think there are more troubling things than climate change. Perhaps Putin launching hundreds of nuclear missiles but not much else.
 


Zeberdi

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Oct 20, 2022
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I'm not trying to upset you @Zeberdi, I knew you had an interest in the subject from other posts you have made elsewhere, and a different take on it to me, so I was unsurprised when you commented on my post, which I fully accept you have the right to do. So I apologise if my choice of words were taken the wrong way.

You presumably do accept that every country, and indeed individual make their own choices about who they trade with and how they produce goods and services? Which is my point - we aren't forcing other countries to trade with us or anyone else, nor are we setting their climate policies for them, despite the fact that it can disadvantage us economically, and has stripped away out manufacturing base.

No I don't want to introduce illegal immigration, private ownership of utilities, or culture wars into the climate debate! Anybody should be able to see I was merely pointing out that those are examples of political issues that are likely more important to the general population of the UK than the climate and the JSO idiots.

We shouldn't do ourselves down as a nation on the climate issue, as it is plain to see with every EV on the road, every new solar panel installed, and wind farm erected, that we are heading in the right direction.
No apologies necessary and - well, at least JSO‘s latest antics has got us all talking 😉

I actually agree with your perception of how the electorate prioritise issues (unfortunately ) - that’s exactly why environmental campaigners are resorting to more shocking tactics - because of the (future) longterm nature of the anticipated worst impacts of climate change, it has simply been bounced off the table by more immediate issues.

My whole point about all this is that people need to stop seeing the Climate Crisis as someone’s else’s fault; someone else’s problem to sort out or ‘tomorrow’s problem’. That was why the legally binding nature of the Kyoto targets were a fiasco 27 years ago and why the US and Canada refused to ratify it - they refused to accept that developing countries like China and Japan would get a pass on tough targets.

The Paris Agreement was a major achievement in getting consensus because the targets are voluntary (each Country pledging their own commitments to suit themselves) but that too is showing signs of being too weak a framework and an inadequate response to the Crisis we are facing.

Without some sort of external coercion, most countries imo aren't likely to step up their game and make the radical changes to keep us anywhere close to 2°C for exactly the reasons you say - if we leave the future of our planet in the hands of each individual nation to respond as they see fit, of course they aren’t going to implement policies that disadvantage them while others nations refuse to make similar sacrifices.
 
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Curious Orange

Punxsatawney Phil
Jul 5, 2003
10,225
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No apologies necessary and - well, at least JSO‘s latest antics has got us all talking 😉

Quite. I suspect we actually agree on more things to do with the climate than we disagree on in all honesty.

You rightly point out that it will take a global effort to reduce humanities impact on the environment, sadly there isn't an easy path to doing that. If there were one that didn't involve serious moral and ethical problems* we'd have already taken it.

* along the lines of:- population x needs to stay poor and cold, and have no aspirations of betterment, so we can attempt to control this problem.
 


Honest question.... are you unaware of the raft of (very expensive) policy and legislation already in our laps that are the 'acts' that you are seeking?...

I am increasingly surprised by the tone of some of the comment here that is seemingly ignoring the many steps already taken and the already evolving transition towards 'zero' this and 'neutral' that..

You can't just flick a switch and turn off a century and a half of industrial and technological revolution, this move has to be a gradual process.

But you can speed up the transition. Introduce critical changes and struct laws that protect the environment.

This should never come down to costs, it is our children’s and their children’s futures ffs.
 


heathgate

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But you can speed up the transition. Introduce critical changes and struct laws that protect the environment.

This should never come down to costs, it is our children’s and their children’s futures ffs.
It absolutely should come down to cost,... this should be a managed move towards a technologically innovative set of solutions..... solutions that balance the sustainable economic picture with sustainable changes to the way we live, and pay to live.... but I suspect you already know that, but prefer to kiss the feet of an erratic Scandinavian former schoolgirl.
 






worthingweird

Well-known member
Mar 8, 2023
358
Every time this misinformation about “dye/powder which will wash away” comes up I am obliged to correct it.

The specialists who tend to the stones are saying the opposite.

Archaeologist Mike Pitts expressed his strong concern over the potential damage, and said that the megaliths were fenced off and guarded to protect their surfaces, which were entirely covered in prehistoric markings that haven't been fully analyzed. He also expressed concern about possible damage to the divers lichen patterns on the megalith surfaces.


Now I don’t think for a second they considered this, but if anything it makes it even worse and shows how irresponsible they are being by knowingly committing criminal acts without even an understanding of the outcome.
Give the twats a criminal record, this can really do some damage...
 






worthingseagull123

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May 5, 2012
2,687
They are complete oddballs with ignorant and bizarre ideas.

Someone is exploiting them to action. They all look like misfits who do not fit in with mainstream society, that is for sure.
 


Insel affe

HellBilly
Feb 23, 2009
24,334
Brighton factually.....
You wont be saying that when your in a massive que because they have targeted the airport when you are off on your Hoilbobs !
I said earlier in the thread yesterday, a gartwick member of staff told me they have been warned to expect disruption all through the holiday period.

I will not be Fkn happy if it happens to me, feck em.
The potential for carnage was massive im not surprised the old bill have done something in advance

Dozens of campaigners held over alleged airport plans
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce98dqn19plo
 


Doonhamer7

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Jun 17, 2016
1,453
Bp announced yesterday they are pulling back their investment in green energy, following on from Shell. Real reason since they did this is their share price hasn't gone up at same rate as chevron and Exxon Mobil. So if you want real change you have change the minds of the companies Blackrock, Morgan Stanley, and Vanguard etc - they are the ones that can change the IOC behaviour and force them to change.

just stop oil also needs to catch up, the “oil and gas“ industry is now called “energy security” industry.
 






TomandJerry

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Oct 1, 2013
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Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil climate campaign who conspired to cause gridlock on London’s orbital motorway have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms.

Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were found guilty last week of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for coordinating direct action protests on the M25 over four days in November 2022.


Hallam received a five year sentence on Thursday, while the other four were each sentenced to four years.
 




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