Five years and homesickness increasing..
May 31st 2019, 12:27 pm
#106
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Re: Five years and homesickness increasing..
I follow various scientists/activists on Twitter. The UK is far ahead in it’s public knowledge than most of Canada and even if it was more mainstream then trying to get people to give up their boats etc would be even harder. At least the UK doesn’t even have most of these things to give up, they have green tariffs in place, the infrastructure is in place to decrease car use, people care there. There’s been a huge swing to green parties. Mostly, though I think if I have to give up long haul flying and live in one place, the the UK with it’s easy train/driving access to Europe would be where it’s at.
May 31st 2019, 8:34 pm
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Yeah, I don’t know of any kids my son’s age on Facebook. It’s definitely an older generation thing. Instagram, Snapchat, is where the teens are at. I think there are a lot of young people engaged in politics these day (protest around education has been big around here) and very aware of Climate Change. My son knows who’s been to what protest, it’s being discussed in school not by teachers but by students. The protests in Toronto were big, although admittedly not as big as the UK ones going on. My son commented me to the other day that Doug Ford doesn’t care (discussing tree planing programme being cancelled) because he’ll be dead and it will be his generation that will have to deal with the mess we made. Of course, there will be the vacuous self absorbed, but peer pressure is huge. It’s our generation that need to give up on our way of thinking and will find it the hardest. We grew up thinking we can and should do everything we desire.
I follow various scientists/activists on Twitter. The UK is far ahead in it’s public knowledge than most of Canada and even if it was more mainstream then trying to get people to give up their boats etc would be even harder. At least the UK doesn’t even have most of these things to give up, they have green tariffs in place, the infrastructure is in place to decrease car use, people care there. There’s been a huge swing to green parties. Mostly, though I think if I have to give up long haul flying and live in one place, the the UK with it’s easy train/driving access to Europe would be where it’s at.
Green parties are increasing in power here. OK, so we are several years behind the UK, but look at the Greens in BC ........... hold the balance of power in the Legislature. The Greens have been elected to the Legislatures in PEI and NB.
It's Ontario that is going backward, along with Alberta.
The difference in election of parties is striking between the centre of Canada, and the coastal Provinces.
May 31st 2019, 11:19 pm
#108
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But cars are huge producers of carbon.
Green parties are increasing in power here. OK, so we are several years behind the UK, but look at the Greens in BC ........... hold the balance of power in the Legislature. The Greens have been elected to the Legislatures in PEI and NB.
It's Ontario that is going backward, along with Alberta.
The difference in election of parties is striking between the centre of Canada, and the coastal Provinces.
Green parties are increasing in power here. OK, so we are several years behind the UK, but look at the Greens in BC ........... hold the balance of power in the Legislature. The Greens have been elected to the Legislatures in PEI and NB.
It's Ontario that is going backward, along with Alberta.
The difference in election of parties is striking between the centre of Canada, and the coastal Provinces.
May 31st 2019, 11:58 pm
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I have, btw, purchased a yoghurt knitting car. It's fun! The petrol engine would be dead if manufacturers concentrated on electric/hybrid and offered a full range of body styles with ecologically reasonable engines.
Jun 1st 2019, 1:48 am
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Jun 1st 2019, 1:55 am
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Re: Five years and homesickness increasing..
Results of a quick google:
Solar panels are manufactured using hazardous materials, such as sulfuric acid and phosphine gas, which make them difficult to recycle. ... According to an analysis by Environmental Progress, solar panels create about 300 times more toxic waste per unit of electricity generated than nuclear powerplants.Aug 15, 2017
Jun 1st 2019, 1:57 am
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Re: Five years and homesickness increasing..
Solar panels are manufactured using hazardous materials, such as sulfuric acid and phosphine gas, which make them difficult to recycle. ... According to an analysis by Environmental Progress, solar panels create about 300 times more toxic waste per unit of electricity generated than nuclear powerplants.Aug 15, 2017
Jun 1st 2019, 2:07 am
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Over those two weeks gas powered plants produced 40% of the power and nuclear 20% - not all solar and wind
Jun 1st 2019, 2:16 am
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I think it's nuclear power. Yes, there's waste that has to be buried on Indian reservations or kept in swimming pools forever and there's the issue of the mutant fish but the power generated by one nuclear power station is tremendous compared with that of an acre of windmills. Mass death is a consideration, of course, Chernobyl would have been a lawful implementation in the US at the time of it exploding. Overall though, if your nuclear plant doesn't explode and you don't much care about the indigenous people and their cancers, it's a lot less ugly than wind farms.
Jun 1st 2019, 2:36 am
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Wind Farms and Solar farms come with their own downsides especially for birds and other wildlife.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael.../#257e15643a1c
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael.../#257e15643a1c
Jun 3rd 2019, 4:00 pm
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But cars are huge producers of carbon.
Green parties are increasing in power here. OK, so we are several years behind the UK, but look at the Greens in BC ........... hold the balance of power in the Legislature. The Greens have been elected to the Legislatures in PEI and NB.
It's Ontario that is going backward, along with Alberta.
The difference in election of parties is striking between the centre of Canada, and the coastal Provinces.
Green parties are increasing in power here. OK, so we are several years behind the UK, but look at the Greens in BC ........... hold the balance of power in the Legislature. The Greens have been elected to the Legislatures in PEI and NB.
It's Ontario that is going backward, along with Alberta.
The difference in election of parties is striking between the centre of Canada, and the coastal Provinces.
Actually China is the worse producer of carbon.
Trees actually need carbon to survive.
Jun 3rd 2019, 4:13 pm
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Re: Five years and homesickness increasing..
Wind Farms and Solar farms come with their own downsides especially for birds and other wildlife.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael.../#257e15643a1c
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael.../#257e15643a1c