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Originally Posted by cashman
society cannot up sticks and move bricks and mortar have seen to that.
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The majority in the places where it is becoming inhospitable don't have bricks and motar and are more than capable of migration. heck if it was a choice of this house and struggling to live or a more comfortable life somewhere else I'd happy walk away tomorrow
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
What is most definitely true is that the world is overpopulated.
And while boffins work out how to make us ‘greener’…..what is needed is population control.
Now how you can effect this is a moot point.
War and pestilence usually make a fine fist of this, but it is and unhappy fist.
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Agree whole heartedly, it wasn't that long ago that here in advanced Britain we had enormous families because in short it was expected that some would die.
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
but then using electrical vehicles which are not eco friendly to make….and disposing of the batteries is going to be a problem too.
They need to be charged, their range is limited and where is the electric power to charge them coming from….don’t, please, don’t say wind power(unless you are citing the hot air from our lack lustre politicians).
This is the most inefficient way to generate sustainable energy.
We are an island surrounded by the movement of the tides….guaranteed always to be there….so why is that option not on the table….hydrogen power is also a cleaner source of power, but not without its hazards.
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again 100% on the ecological footprint of manufacture of EVs... I'm back in a 30year old Merc as my daily on that very basis. Range however isn't the issue it was 5 years ago. There are plenty that can do the same and more than my merc can on a full tank. Recharge times are dropping quickly as well.
re tidal or wind or solar as generation points, my concern is that where we interfere with the natural order of things we don't necessarily understand the wider impact on the wildlife that might use that tide to migrate or the movement becomes disrupted and confuses them. just like bird strikes on wind farms. Solar farms do seem to offer a relative potential benefit as I've seen watercourses in hot countries enclosed with a solar "roof" which reduces evaporation and allows more of the source water to get to the end points its often sorely needed