Will The Eco Warriors Now Go Where There Is A Problem?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48711649
of course they won't!

[dannyk13]

Spath, you seem to have all the answers, so how do you propose that it can be done earlier?

[spathiphyllum]

Hemp. Hemp is the way forward.

[dannyk13]

Another thread ruined by a crass reply.

[fender62]

spath..hemp marijuana, what to make rope or smoke it, the former is useful the latter makes you lazy and eventually paranoid.

[goodgoalie]

I reckon they should all go up to Drax power station, which, having been converted at huge expense to all us bill-payers, is now burning wood pellets brought over from the USA, where they're chopping down trees to make them. Little greener than burning coal, in spite of the trees they say that are being planted to 'off-set' this absurdity.
Now that would be a demo that would get my full attention and support.

[jim360]

// Spath, why do you think that they are protesting against the only country that has a target for zero carbon emissions by 2050? //

Just to be clear, this isn't true: the UK is the only major country to have such a target, but there are a few other countries who have set similar and even more ambitious targets, such as Sweden (2045) and Norway (2030). Two countries, Bhutan and Suriname, have already achieved carbon-neutral status.

[jim360]

As to the OP, it's important to note two things:

1. The UK's goal of neutrality by 2050 may be the most ambitious such target of any of the major economies, but it's still not ambitious enough. The recommended year to achieve carbon neutrality, according to the latest climate research, is 2030. It's no good patting ourselves on the back when even if we do hit the target (which is anyway dependent on actually doing something rather than just saying it) we'd be two decades too late.

2. It's not exactly unreasonable to protest in (a) your home country and (b) a country where you can expect to achieve something by protesting. In the end there's nothing the UK can do about climate change as long as the US and China are still pumping out CO2 like nobody's business, but the best thing for UK citizens to do in the meantime is to pressure the UK government to do as much as possible.

[dannyk13]

JIm, and what do you think can be achieved by these anarchic demonstrators?

[jim360]

I'm not a fan of "anarchic protest" in general anyway. But they've certainly helped keep the item in the news of late, and it's not exactly too much of a stretch to say that at least some of the reason the UK set a 2050 target recently was because of the latest round of protests.

You're welcome for the correction, by the way :)

[dannyk13]

Thank you but no correction needed, I was referring to the demonstrators being anarchic.Just for future reference please refrain from trying (and failing)to show your superior use of grammar.

[jim360]

The correction I meant was the one about the UK being the only country to set a 2050 target (it's not). I wasn't correcting your grammar at all.

[jim360]

So just for future reference please pay more attention to context rather than jumping all over somebody :P

[spathiphyllum]

Hemp can provide efficient fuel, clothing, paper, medicine, food, fibre to make clothes etc.. It is literally the super plant. Ya'll have no idea of the hemp potentials. My comment was in no way crass, danny.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/mv5b8x/the-great-hemp-experiment-begins

[dannyk13]

Jim, then you might have indicated to which post you were referring.

[spathiphyllum]

Danny, from clothes to houses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp

[spathiphyllum]

From shoes to sinks. Hemp could literally save the planet.

[spathiphyllum]

the fact you responded "crass" to the mention of hemp, proves the struggles the plant has to get into these industries. People instantly associate it to pot (fender) and dismiss it. It's ignorant.

[dannyk13]

Spath, I withdraw the crass remark.Hemp is very versatile but I don't think it is the complete answer.

[spathiphyllum]

That's nice danny, i appreciate that.

you're right. It's not the complete answer, but with the rate of how quickly it grows, with it's versatility from food to clothing to housing, with the ease that it's grown (not much attention or money needed to grow it) it needs to be implemented into much more industries.

I am surprised it's not been pushed forth, even just in the paper industry.. I'm constantly wondering why.

[naomi24]

//they've certainly helped keep the item in the news of late//

They certainly have but not in a way that will necessarily win friends and influence people.