Climate Change (Global Warming) 🥶🌍🌞

There was a discussion a while back about there being fewer insects about...pesticides were mentioned, but there's also this...

Everyone loves to blame agriculture for all environmental ills but the sector is trying to produce food for a population density that is environmentally unsustainable. And they're trying to do it within a market rigged by political controls and food retail monopolies. You can legislate farmers out of business or force them to become wildlife park wardens rather than food producers but that doesn't solve the problem, it merely off-shores it, just as it does with energy generation.

Basically, you can have one thousand people per square mile crammed into an orange-glowing island city, or you can have sustainable agriculture and clean energy. You can't have both.
 
Get rid of crops, grass it over and rear delicious nutritious livestock on it...self fertilizing the land as they go and little need for chemical pesticides.

You know...like what used to happen for millenia.
 
Get rid of crops, grass it over and rear delicious nutritious livestock on it...self fertilizing the land as they go and little need for chemical pesticides.

You know...like what used to happen for millenia.
Very happy for that to happen. I will still eat my fruit and vegetables and I would be quite happy to forage for wild ones. But for us all to do that without mass starvation or simply off-shoring the intensive agricuture to another part of the world (with all the diesel-power food miles involved) we'd have to reduce our population to about one million people. I'd be in favour of that as well. In fact, I'd be more than happy to subsist in a woodland clearing with a couple of pigs, some chickens and a .308 Winchester, with my nearest neighbour living a similar life three miles away. But it's unlikely to happen unfortunately.

As a compromise, we could start with not subsidising the growing of crops for foods of zero nutritional value, like grains for refined bread, sugar for snacks and cakes, oils for potato crisps and fast "food" and vast swathes of oilseed rape for "bio"-diesel.

Japan has a higher population density than the UK. It is a very mountainous country which makes the intensive rearing of livestock very difficult, which is why traditionally Japan has sourced the bulk of its animal protein from the ocean rather than the land, and why they were allowed to continue limited whaling after it was outlawed inetrnationally. But they don't eat much in the way of cereal grains so their arable production is concentrated around rice paddies and market garden style vegetable production. Despite it's population density, rural Japan is a garden rather than a factory farm and that's entirely down to their diet.
 
It won't be needed anyway now we've decided to stop producing food and cover our farmland in Chinese solar panels and second homes for third world rapists and murderers. Climate change is solved.
 
We need powerful AI to service the MSMs random headline generator and ensure that we will never run out of completely insane "news" headlines.
 
It’s 10 minutes stick with it, it’s illuminating 😁


The bulb then is a good metaphor for most ‘eco’ measures. Look at the manufacture of EVs…the greenest thing is to keep your current car, or buy one that already exists; not to buy a new EV.
And replacing coal which was mined next door to power stations with wood pellets, made from felling trees 5000 miles away that need processing and shipping - and still release co2 when they’re burned (not that co2 is a problem at all). Madness.
 
Bloody boiling planet!

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I completely agree.

Undermine the building foundations (poetic justice when considering what the assclowns who infest the structure have done to the country) and the whole edifice should slide smoothly into the river.

Good shout, Hugo.
My only knowledge of the building is that they saved a couple of quid when ordering the stone to build it resulting in the blocks being cut the wrong way allowing water to freely flow through the stone - who'd have thunk it 🤔
 
It's a grade 1 listed building and a unesco world heritage site. This map offered a solution

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It is the multi billion pound new super sewer system for london which is now completed. They could have quite easily ran seperate and much smaller pipes alongside it to harness the natural geo thermal heating power to supply free heat to the parliament estate. They chose not to.

 
The world is turning against the loons :)(y)



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