We’Re All Doomed!

[ChillDoubt]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45775309

Joking aside, will anyone on here give serious consideration to lifestyle choices/changes?
At the risk of sounding ‘holier than thou’ I couldn’t really do any more than I do(from someone who gets spoken to for throwing his banana skins/apple cores out of the window into an enclosed area) but am intrigued as to how many will give serious consideration.
Anyone?

[rowanwitch]

I still do it, but I am not sure the effects of my mostly veggie diet are not counteracting my good intent. Didn't have children, grow as much of my own veg as i can to save foodmiles.

[Theland]

Bus services are being cut on the altar of austerity.
Investment in these would make cars less attractive, I think.

[Togo]

A science and consensus based on deliberately false data.
//Just ahead of a new report from the IPCC, dubbed SR#15 about to be released today, we have this bombshell- a detailed audit shows the surface temperature data is unfit for purpose. The first ever audit of the world’s most important temperature data set (HadCRUT4) has found it to be so riddled with errors and “freakishly improbable data” that it is effectively useless.
From the IPCC://

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/10/no_author/bombshell-audit-of-global-warming-data-finds-it-riddled-with-errors/

[Ryzen]

Start by rewarding women who dont have kids.

[Theland]

Oh that's a relief!

[Spicerack]

Told them that, togo. Completely ignored.
I suspect they're BBC viewers.

[mushroom25]

well the government is just paying lip service to any commitment to reducing carbon emissions. Failing Grayling says that diesel trains are "the future" and at a stroke has killed the railway electrification industry stone dead - trains have a life of at least 30 years so the diesels of today won't be replaced until 2050; so no more electrification before then.

[Togo]

I know Spice. No one even "asked for a link" Sooooooo, I thought, why not provide one for the hand wringers to ignore. :))

[tamborine]

Ryzen....."Start by rewarding women who dont have kids".....

Supply condoms - We cant rear & feed every sperm !

[Spungle]

Yes, I will immediately cease to wear deodorant, go out at night and turf over all the motorways, slash my own tyres, recycle my toenail clippings and most importantly, will entirely rely on the BBC for advice on how to live my life.

[jourdain2]

Well, for a start I don't believe scientists. They only work on the data they have and that inevitably changes as they discover new things. It used to be common for doctors to recommend smoking to counteract overeating and nail-biting (honestly, I was told that) and smoke was supposed to 'clear the tubes'.
I do as much as I can (and more than a lot, I daresay) in recycling and saving because I grew up in the 50s when you wasted nothing. Our area also came top in UK for recycling last year.

As others have said, I see little point in doing much more whilst China etc. increase their pollution by more than we can ever save.
I heard the other day that the much vaunted 'windmills' actually raise the temperature above them by something approaching 2 degrees, so much for eco-friendly! I go for wave-power myself.

We already eat less meat, grow our own veg., buy eggs from local hens, support local food producers. No, I'm not doing any more until the rest of the world does. What we could do as a country is to stop child benefit.

[jim360]

I'm honestly struggling to even understand that post, jourdain -- on what grounds don't you "believe"?

As for Togo and Spicerack's posts, I haven't looked into it yet.

[-Talbot-]

Please hurry back with your conclusions, jim...time is of the essence

[jim360]

I'll try not to keep my eager audience waiting.

[ichkeria]

“They only work on the data they have”

Shocking :-)

[Prudie]

I don't understand why we have to eat less meat, butter, milk and cheese? Are they blaming a lot of it on cows?

[jim360]

I do believe that cow farming is a problem, particularly when -- as in parts of South America -- it leads to large-scale deforestation. Not to mention the large volume of methane emissions from cow farts (this is serious).

[fender62]

jim360, mmm yea lot's of cows lot's of farts, pity they cannot invent some kind of cow butt plugs to trap all that gas, and possibly force members of our parliment and lords to wear on both ends.

[Spicerack]

It's just part of the Globalist scheme, Prudie.
Get people used to living on slops for when they have no choice in the matter.

[bhg481]

Cows produce methane by eating vegetation and rotting it down. It follows that human vegetarians do exactly the same thing. The solution is for people to be banned from eating vegetables and forced to eat cows, thus cutting down the amount of methane they (humans) produce and also reducing the number of cows, cutting methane production even further.