Forum menu
Up to £400 a week for doing yoga on a bridge?
Where do I sign up?
Here:
https://rebellion.earth/act-now/join-us/But, you won’t of course. You’ll do nothing and moan about those doing something
Excellent
This tree planting solution rips my knitting. Sure it's a good idea - also improves the natural environment and can help alter river catchment response to precipitation so that the flood response is attenuated. But it affects short not long cycle carbon dioxide concentations. It's green-washing but with tangible benefits that marketeers will magnify x1000.
Ranting this eve because I work with a forester whose job is planting trees, and he's just had to interrupt his leave. Reason was because Shell, who are giving millions for extra planting, needed some photographs pronto for their marketing. Hence the fellow has to come in to log on and transfer the photos of the site to be planted to his senior.
Anyhow, on topic....extinction rebellion are doing good work and I am thankful.
Pie says it all.
XR itself is bigger than 'climate', but the current action/protests is very much about it, it even says so on their website.
https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/demands/
Extinction Rebellion is an international apolitical network using non-violent direct action to persuade governments to act justly on the Climate and Ecological Emergency. We have three demands in the UK:
I'm completely behind them.
There are too many people who are selfish, can't be bothered and have a retort to anything you say regarding climate change matters. If seeing a granny on the telly explaining in an articulate way why she is on an XR protest, gets one more person thinking maybe I could do more, then it's worth it.
People just want an easy comfortable life. It takes effort to be a bit greener.
Just little things add up.
When we can reach out to the people that don't watch the news, don't know what's going on in the world, then we'll get somewhere. But that will probably be when it hits them in their wallet/purse.
The point is that we are doing the changes that they are advocating, we are moving to a carbon neutral society. It is in law for 2050. The Government has declared a climate emergency.
Presumably they've cancelled the extra runway for Heathrow then?
bit of foil from a KitKat
Probably about 20 years old as they stopped using the foil in 2001. Surprised it hadn't degraded, been buried under leaves etc..........
If forests are the only thing that removes carbon then that has to be the thing to focus on. We will never be zero carbon without increasing them.
Europe is approx 1 billion ha population about a billion but is already 40% forest, and the rest of the land is intensively farmed for food. The population is shrinking massively so we should replace farmend land with forest as it declines.
China similer size and numbers to Europe also stabalised population but less forest, about 20% but are planting like there is no tomorrow, one the size of Ireland recently done.
Africa on the other hand is 3 billion hectares, same 1 billion population size but only 20% forest, most fertile land on earth but a net importer of food. Massive forest fires way worse than the Amazon, massive polluter. And population estimated to increase 10 fold.
Can't be bothered to Google India.
Who is not pulling their weight?
It's not just forests that hold carbon. Mosses/peat bogs on moorland, seaweed too. But all this needs to be managed.
The point is that we are doing the changes that they are advocating, we are moving to a carbon neutral society. It is in law for 2050. The Government has declared a climate emergency.
So when we leave the EU, aren’t we going to be increasingly buying/importing our all-you-can-consume bargain-bucket bonanza from toxic sludge-holes of The World? How is our super-clean rap-sheet going to avoid the outsource spatter?