What are you doing to combat climate change?
Sep 28th 2019, 1:11 am
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
Nothing! Before I came to Canada I was scrupulous about my recycling...here in NB, I might very well be one of the only denizens who gives a shit! We don’t need to care in Canada, as we have lots of room to bury the waste! I still go to our recycling depot... but it isn’t a crowded, joy filled, activity. 
Sep 28th 2019, 1:32 am
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
Well I've spent the last ten years shedding blood, sweat and tears working for an environmental charity, does that count?
Sep 28th 2019, 5:41 pm
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
Sep 28th 2019, 10:17 pm
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
I walk to the grocery store and pharmacy, I grow my own veggies (apart from salad stuff) and have reduced my meat consumption to once per week, although I do eat a fair bit of fish most of it is locally sourced. I use reusable bags to carry my shopping in. Everything possible is recycled and I compost a lot of stuff - I only have one small bag of proper rubbish/garbage every 2 weeks or so.
Sadly I know a fair few Canadians who deny that global warming exists and say it's all propaganda.. that the sun goes through cycles and we are within one right now.. which has an element of truth in it, except for all the other stuff that we humanoids do to destroy our planet and atmosphere.
Sadly I know a fair few Canadians who deny that global warming exists and say it's all propaganda.. that the sun goes through cycles and we are within one right now.. which has an element of truth in it, except for all the other stuff that we humanoids do to destroy our planet and atmosphere.
Sep 28th 2019, 10:25 pm
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
Isn't the quicker rate at which the climate is changing the issue?
Clearly the planet has undergone many changes climate wise over the worlds history, the climate today is certainly not the same as when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Clearly the planet has undergone many changes climate wise over the worlds history, the climate today is certainly not the same as when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Sep 29th 2019, 4:03 am
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
We have an electric car and have stopped eating meat. Not that I ever ate much of it.
Sep 30th 2019, 6:56 am
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
I'd buy a new coat.
Sep 30th 2019, 3:31 pm
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Sep 30th 2019, 5:36 pm
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
I have re-usable bags that I use for groceries. I've been pretty focused on reducing my intake of single use plastic to try and reduce the impact that has.
Climate change is not really on my radar as I'm too busy preparing for Canadian winter.
Mankind will drive itself to extinction and the world will reset and start again. No big deal as we'll all be long gone. Climate change is simply a process.
Climate change is not really on my radar as I'm too busy preparing for Canadian winter.
Mankind will drive itself to extinction and the world will reset and start again. No big deal as we'll all be long gone. Climate change is simply a process.
Mankind will drive itself to extinction........it wont be through climate change, it will be through technology.....
Sep 30th 2019, 8:19 pm
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
Doing my bit to help clear up the mess by buying plenty of Gas and paying the Carbon Tax. Can’t do that with a EV now can ya ?
Hopefully the money will clear it all up and we can move on and create other issues that taxing can solve
Hopefully the money will clear it all up and we can move on and create other issues that taxing can solve
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Oct 1st 2019, 6:32 am
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
There's been some levity on this topic. I wonder whether it betrays a reluctance to face the issue.
As I said before, the levels of CO2 etc are already high and none of us, myself included, refuse to give up our reliance on oil and it's derivatives. It really doesn't matter whether you have solar or recycle or drive an EV, the issue is how to remove CO2 etc from the atmosphere. Trees do this very well but they are a threatened species.
I don't know what to do, politicians don't know what to do because the decisions are too painful to contemplate, there isn't a profit in it so industrialists don't care and anyone with any influence who's alive will be dead before the crunch comes, so nothing that might attenuate the consequences gets done.
There's a scene in the film The Matrix where Smith compares the human species to a virus, was he wrong?
As I said before, the levels of CO2 etc are already high and none of us, myself included, refuse to give up our reliance on oil and it's derivatives. It really doesn't matter whether you have solar or recycle or drive an EV, the issue is how to remove CO2 etc from the atmosphere. Trees do this very well but they are a threatened species.
I don't know what to do, politicians don't know what to do because the decisions are too painful to contemplate, there isn't a profit in it so industrialists don't care and anyone with any influence who's alive will be dead before the crunch comes, so nothing that might attenuate the consequences gets done.
There's a scene in the film The Matrix where Smith compares the human species to a virus, was he wrong?
Oct 1st 2019, 2:03 pm
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
There's a scene in the film The Matrix where Smith compares the human species to a virus, was he wrong?
in another million or so years, who of whatever inhabit the earth at that time, mining human fossils and driving human oil fired hover bikes will refer to this time as the Humanic period. Just another period where life evolved and then became extinct. It’s only humans who believe they will never disappear but we will, eventually
in another million or so years, who of whatever inhabit the earth at that time, mining human fossils and driving human oil fired hover bikes will refer to this time as the Humanic period. Just another period where life evolved and then became extinct. It’s only humans who believe they will never disappear but we will, eventually
Oct 1st 2019, 2:42 pm
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Re: What are you doing to combat climate change?
There's a scene in the film The Matrix where Smith compares the human species to a virus, was he wrong?
in another million or so years, who of whatever inhabit the earth at that time, mining human fossils and driving human oil fired hover bikes will refer to this time as the Humanic period. Just another period where life evolved and then became extinct. It’s only humans who believe they will never disappear but we will, eventually
in another million or so years, who of whatever inhabit the earth at that time, mining human fossils and driving human oil fired hover bikes will refer to this time as the Humanic period. Just another period where life evolved and then became extinct. It’s only humans who believe they will never disappear but we will, eventually