Religious Intolerance

» redback - Where Do You Live?

In response to Where Do You Live? posted by pink101:

Check out post 29, Pink.

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» redback - feel goods

In response to feel goods posted by benhughes:

It's interesting when we (the world) go past the feel good statements.
Here, developers are required by law to fund 'open spaces'. This is how the local park comes into existence and if the space and entry to it is properly registered as a 'dedicated reserve' is forever exempt from being built out. There's been a few clumsy decisions where one or two footpaths to the park has been able to be closed...my advocacy to the rescue!

So, if you can't plant a tree "here", agitate for it to be planted "there"...shopping centre carparks etc.

"There isn't any call for air conditioning in the UK..."
There's a loud call for aircon here so tis an area we contribute more in greenhouse gases than you.

We're up there in recycling, though. There is a national plan to eliminate the shopping plastic bag within 12 months. The 2nd bin (yellow lid) is for re-cycling. Like you plus(?) milk & juice cartons, aerosol cans, steel cans excl paint tins etc by the bin. Much stuff has the 'recycle' logo on it. Trouble is, some of this effort is wasted when careless people put garbage with it.

4WDs are used to take children to school or run over them in their own driveways. We haven't seen many Humvees yet...but the cities don't need 'em here either. Selfishly, I can't grumble about fares and public transport. As a non-pensioner 'Senior', I get a $AUD2.50 all-day ticket combined bus-ferry-train. And I don't travel in peak hour nor on non-aircon trains if I can avoid it.

"What's that all about when we're told to use a public transport system which isn't integrated?"

Same problem be it a lousy transport system, buying only OZ (or only UK-made) made products or the climate change thingo. It's likely to cost us more just for the 'feel good' of it.

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» pink101 - Where Do You Live?

In response to Where Do You Live? posted by redback:

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UK?
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Is that England?
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I thought UK included a lot of countries.
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» pink101 - Hybrid cars

In response to Hybrid cars posted by benhughes:

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I did a little search on the Web and Lancashire looks like an exciting place to live.
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» redback - Where Do You Live?

In response to Where Do You Live? posted by pink101:

"I thought UK included a lot of countries.

England, Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom (UK) are lazy, interchangeable terms for this foreigner...for one sovereign country. The Irish, Scottish, Welsh etc peoples are part of the UK and may hold conflicting and more passionate views than I about what is after all THEIR homeland, not mine.

The British 'Commonwealth' however includes Canada and Australia + 14 or so other sovereign countries where we share a foreign Queen as some form of ceremonial 'Head of State' but not in practice. We all are NOT part of the UK. The USA could have had this Queen too but you luckily chose Dubya and his predecessors.

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» redback - said Hanrahan

If we all bought local produce...imported none...even those out-of-season Californian navel oranges OR we came up with an internationally integrated way to simplify worldwide distribution of food...avoid duplication of air transport etc, we could avoid many tonnes of greenhouse gases. But that may require for example, the USA easing up on its biased "Free" Trade Agreements...for mutual benefit.

It won't happen.

Antarctica shed nearly 200 billion tonnes of ice via its glaciers...in 2006. That was 75% more than it did in 1996. Snowfall is not keeping up to replace it. Some say that climate change is already out of control. Some like me, wonder whether it ever was controlled...for our selfish benefit.

The ocean currents are a'changing.

That great prophet, Hanrahan, foresaw all this:

""We want an inch of rain, we do,"
O'Neil observed at last;
But Croke "maintained" we wanted two
To put the danger past.
"If we don't get three inches, man,
Or four to break this drought,
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."

Check out:
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/ob...

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» Ben Hughes - Hybrid cars

In response to Hybrid cars posted by pink101:

It is a nice place to be, but where I live in Rossendale we have the highest carbon footprint in the area (excluding a place with a large cement works in the north of the county - I think).

It's just that most people don't seem to be interested in saving what we've already got.

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» Ben Hughes - said Hanrahan

In response to said Hanrahan posted by redback:

I agree - I think it's about buying local produce when we can. Do we really need a bottle of wine from the other side of the world or out-of-season fruits when there are plenty of in-season ones?

The problem over here is that we have local farmers' markets selling local produce across the country but some people are unhappy that their prices are so much more than the shop when they were originally promoted (years ago) to lower prices by cutting out the middle man.

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» redback - local produce

In response to said Hanrahan posted by benhughes:

No sooner do I mention the need for out of season produce thus a demand for inefficient importing around the world than I read an article today about the 9-10 month cold storage of local apples to meet the all season demand. The argument presented was it was falsely described as "fresh food" by Woolworths who have the poorest record for quality of cold storage fruit.

BUT surely prolonged cold storage is like an aircon on 24/7 in terms of greenhouse gases?

Like with the UK problems you mention, maybe there's ways...politically "courageous" of tackling big ticket items now rather than waiting for the benefits of an extra 250,000 tree saplings planted now...may have some 10 years down the track.

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» Ben Hughes - local produce

In response to local produce posted by redback:

I think it probably depends on who really has the willpower to do it. Or should I say, who thinks they can benefit the most?

Or is that just me being sceptical about it all?

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