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@No-Quarter said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
I don't think this is giving climate change campaigners the credibility they think it does...
I only read the headline ...
... d'oh
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The end is nigh! We only have 10 years left people! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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@Rembrandt said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
The end is nigh! We only have 10 years left people! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
That's what they said 10 years ago. Where are all those climate refugees btw? Surely Tuvalu should be underwater by now.
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That's it guys. 30 years left until total extinction....and I wonder why anti-Trump /Brexit protesters seem so deranged and violent.
If you're pro Trump then you must be anti the environment and want the world to burn..kind of legitimizes violence for the greater good. I wonder how far off murdering in the name of the environment is? One recent murderer hinted at it.
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@Rembrandt said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Ya what now? Air polution is racist?
Of course it is. Christ it must be a barrel of laughs working at the Guardian. Straight white dudes must have to provide proof of neutering before entering the premises.
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Activists using climate change as a humanitarian excuse to justify smuggling boatloads of Africans into Europe. Good article.
The Coming Migration out of Sub-Saharan Africa
Almost the entire population of Italy, it seems, spent the last week of June watching a boat arrive from across the Mediterranean. It was the Sea-Watch 3, a Netherlands-registered ship funded by progressive philanthropists and captained by Carola Rackete, a 31-year-old German climate-change activist.
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In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s foreign minister, the Social Democrat Heiko Maas, backed Rackete against the Italian authorities. “Saving human lives is no crime,” he said.
If Rome and Berlin have been transfixed by a nautical incident involving only a few dozen African seafarers, it is for a simple reason: There are a billion more where those came from. And how Europe addresses African migration is going to determine what the population of the continent looks like a generation from now.
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Smith begins by laying out some facts. Africa is adding people at a rate never before seen on any continent. The population of sub-Saharan Africa alone, now about a billion people, will more than double to 2.2 billion people by mid-century, while that of Western Europe will fall to a doddering half billion or so. We should note that the figures Smith uses are not something he dreamed up while out on a walk — they are the official United Nations estimates, which in recent years have frequently underestimated population shifts.
The closer you look, the more disorienting is the change. In 1950 the Saharan country of Niger, with 2.6 million people, was smaller than Brooklyn. In 2050, with 68.5 million people, it will be the size of France. By that time, nearby Nigeria, with 411 million people, will be considerably larger than the United States. In 1960, Nigeria’s capital, Lagos, had only 350,000 people. It was smaller than Newark. But Lagos is now 60 times as large as it was then, with a population of 21 million, and it is projected to double again in size in the next generation, making it the largest city in the world, with a population roughly the same as Spain’s.
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Lots of global Amazon hysteria this week...
Why Everything They Say About The Amazon, Including That It's The 'Lungs Of The World,' Is Wrong
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“The lungs of the Earth are in flames,” said actor Leonardo DiCaprio. “The Amazon Rainforest produces more than 20% of the world’s oxygen,” tweeted soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo. “The Amazon rain forest — the lungs which produce 20% of our planet’s oxygen — is on fire,” tweeted French President Emanuel Macron.
And yet the photos weren’t actually of the fires and many weren’t even of the Amazon. The photo Ronaldo shared was taken in southern Brazil, far from the Amazon, in 2013. The photo that DiCaprio and Macron shared is over 20 years old. The photo Madonna and Smith shared is over 30. Some celebrities shared photos from Montana, India, and Sweden.
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@Salacious-Crumb That might teach some people that using celebrities as news sauces isn't wise, nor presidents that tweet.
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Not sure where this fits. Chrissie Hynes has a go at vegans, no f***ks given.
Undeterred by the feminist furore she whipped up with her rock’n’roll memoir Reckless four years ago, Chrissie Hynde has found a new target for her wrath. The blunt Pretenders frontwoman is fed up with what she describes as the “tyranny” of vegans and their “huge sense of humour bypass”.
As a vegetarian for almost 50 years, Hynde is no stranger to eco-activism and animal rights campaigning. She was once arrested for smearing fake blood on the window of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Paris.
But now she claims to have had enough of vegan radicals “sitting over their computer writing hate mail to people”. She tells The Sunday Times Magazine today: “I would fathom a guess that the vegans have now turned more people into hardcore meat-eaters than they have turned people into vegans.”
Hynde, who turned 68 yesterday, has unexpectedly found herself under fire for her support of non-slaughter micro-dairies, small farms that are devoted to self-sustaining dairy production without causing harm to animals.
Many vegans are opposed to all dairy farming, and so the farm she supports in Rutland “is trolled every single day” in what she describes as a form of tyranny.
When Hynde was last interviewed by the Magazine in 2015, she sparked a storm of feminist protest by advising women: “If you don’t want to entice a rapist, don’t wear high heels so you can’t run from him. If you’re wearing something that says, ‘Come and f*** me’, you’d better be good on your feet.”
Four years later she remains unimpressed by the feminists who labelled her a rape apologist and claims that the fuss “didn’t bother me at all”. When her management office advised her to apologise, she says, she replied: “You know what? I don’t give a shit.” She adds that a female interviewer once told her: “‘If I want to look sexy, I think I should be allowed to.’ I said, ‘Why do you want to look sexy?’ I’ve never wanted to look sexy. And I’ve never had anyone in the music industry discriminate against me or suggest anything sexual to me — ever.”
Today her anger is mostly reserved for vegans with a “sense-of-humour bypass” who offer criticisms but not solutions. “When you get into an animal rights organisation where it’s all po-faced ‘Oh humans are soooo cruel’ it’s just, ah, shut up, tell me something I didn’t know. I’d really prefer to be in a bar with a couple of chain-smoking drunks having a laugh than in a restaurant somewhere with some sanctimonious know-it-all.”
She says the rise of veganism itself is “amazing” and a step towards ending factory farming, but fears radical vegans have lost sight of the need for practical solutions to the challenges involved. “There’s a bigger problem: what are you going to do with all those animals? Where is the solution in all this?
“It can’t be from someone in a flat sitting over their computer writing hate mail to people. It’s out on the countryside, where people are actually looking after animals. I’m all about the farmers. We need them.”
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She suffered from a severe depression when she was 11, he goes on to explain, and taking action on climate change helped her recovery. The family bought an electric car, stopped flying — a rule that effectively ended Thunberg’s opera-singer mother’s international career — and became mostly vegetarian. “It is like day and night, it is an incredible transformation,” he says, talking about how happy and energetic she is now.
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@Tim said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
She suffered from a severe depression when she was 11, he goes on to explain, and taking action on climate change helped her recovery. The family bought an electric car, stopped flying — a rule that effectively ended Thunberg’s opera-singer mother’s international career — and became mostly vegetarian. “It is like day and night, it is an incredible transformation,” he says, talking about how happy and energetic she is now.
Oh great, now dedicates her life to making other kids (and their adult submissives) depressed & hysterical.
Had some lunatics at the train station today handing out pamphlets asking for people to join them in tomorrows climate strike...yep frucking up my work day will definitely bring china/vietnam/india/africa into line...idiots
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@Tim said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
She suffered from a severe depression when she was 11, he goes on to explain, and taking action on climate change helped her recovery. The family bought an electric car, stopped flying — a rule that effectively ended Thunberg’s opera-singer mother’s international career — and became mostly vegetarian. “It is like day and night, it is an incredible transformation,” he says, talking about how happy and energetic she is now.
F*ck You Greta’ Bumper Stickers Spotted In Germany,
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@jegga I sure hope all of those people marching actually care about the environment, and are not just narcissists wanting to take pictures of themselves at said march for social media...
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