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gtw wrote:Thanks for responding and being so engaged and passionate everyone. I agree that SO much more needs to be done at the top (be that global companies or government) but honestly do subscribe to the belief that we all have to do our bit also - which can be tough, especially given the sense of pissing in the wind, but try we must.
Do people think that a personal carbon allowance might be the way forward? With tradeable credits, so people could make money by selling their surplus? I suppose this would need to be done at every level - government, companies, local authorities etc and individuals. Its the fairest way of doing it, otherwise it will always be galling to try your best while you see the neighbours driving a humvee and flying to Dubai to do a bit of shopping every two months.
gtw wrote:Thanks for responding and being so engaged and passionate everyone. I agree that SO much more needs to be done at the top (be that global companies or government) but honestly do subscribe to the belief that we all have to do our bit also - which can be tough, especially given the sense of pissing in the wind, but try we must.
Do people think that a personal carbon allowance might be the way forward? With tradeable credits, so people could make money by selling their surplus? I suppose this would need to be done at every level - government, companies, local authorities etc and individuals. Its the fairest way of doing it, otherwise it will always be galling to try your best while you see the neighbours driving a humvee and flying to Dubai to do a bit of shopping every two months.
TheAlex wrote:I don't think recycling is the answer either. We need to slow down our consumption. Recycling uses resources and adds to pollution, and plastic (if it can be recycled in the first place) only has a certain number of lifecycles before it can't be recycled again. There's even plastic in some of the paper we put in our recycling bins. I read somewhere that our local council can't recycle a whole batch of something if it's contaminated by one object. I don't know if that's true, but it wouldn't surprise me. They only recycle what they can make money from.
pomfob wrote:TheAlex wrote:I don't think recycling is the answer either. We need to slow down our consumption. Recycling uses resources and adds to pollution, and plastic (if it can be recycled in the first place) only has a certain number of lifecycles before it can't be recycled again. There's even plastic in some of the paper we put in our recycling bins. I read somewhere that our local council can't recycle a whole batch of something if it's contaminated by one object. I don't know if that's true, but it wouldn't surprise me. They only recycle what they can make money from.
The mantra is reduce, re-use, recycle - recycling is the last option, not the first.
Rake wrote: Try telling a Welsh hill farmer that he can stop relying on sheep to earn a living where literally nothing else grows / survives.
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