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Post by ‎ on Jun 21, 2024 22:19:12 GMT
One of the problems with attempting to move away from earth's crust materials extracted by mining and drilling is that the massive burden of human overconsumption will fall onto surface based lifeforms like plants and animals.
When this happens we are all totally fucked.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jun 22, 2024 5:49:23 GMT
Ceramic bearings could be adopted in the developed world and folk could go to the shops to coleect their veg with their wicker baskets. It wouldn't make any difference though.
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Post by kris on Jun 22, 2024 8:43:39 GMT
The world runs on oil and has done so since industrialization ... it's not possible to 'Just Stop Oil' Jim Needs much more than a change of mind. Rog It is possible to drastically curtail the use of oil; for example the tech to produce an engine using ceramic bearings which do not require lubrication already exists, and as already mentioned, the use of plastics in food production could be eliminated entirely. If anybody cared enough. Apart from the vested interests.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jun 22, 2024 9:34:32 GMT
We currently have the Labour party's message being one of a strategy of gambling on growth, in order to improve public services. Alongside this they wish to phase out North Sea oil licences, in order to be more 'green'. Britain says it wants to set an example, in the hope that others will follow, so the world will have a 'greener' future. If it really wants to set an example, perhaps it needs to stop tinkering around the edges. End the pretence that insulating people's homes in Britain or saving a few gallons of oil by moving over to ceramic bearings will make a jot of difference, in the grander scheme of things. You see, the accounting for the proposed British growth will be creative. The emissions needed for this growth will be allocated to where the required products are mined, produced, assembled and transported from. Britain may claim to the rest of the world 'look for green we are', as it approaches net zero, but this is a lie. The emissions related to Britains thirst for consumerism and economic growth will simply have been exported to those 'filthy' developing nations. There's no such thing as 'green growth'. So, will Britain and other similar nations be prepared to abandon economic growth in order to save the planet? Yes, I know, we can't, we've signed ourselves up for lots of ponzi-like schemes which have resulted in massive debts and future liabilities, only economic growth can sustain the nation in the face of such things. www.truthdig.com/articles/the-green-growth-delusion/
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Post by brummieboy on Jun 22, 2024 9:50:38 GMT
The world runs on oil and has done so since industrialization ... it's not possible to 'Just Stop Oil' Jim Needs much more than a change of mind. Rog Sooner or later, Mother Nature will stop oil. Quite simply it is a finite source and there is almost certainly less than 100 years' worth left. We will have used up a resource which took billions of years to form in 300 years. Then Mother Nature will start forming more oil, aided hugely by the O/CO2 balance returning to levels found billions of years ago, in which human life is not possible. Just a thought, how do the world reserves of lithium compare to the fossil fuel reserves? I'm pretty sure that the increased reliance on lithium is more fragile than we are told. Continued use of oil and coal will help provide the extra sunshine needed for all the solar panels we will have to rely on !!!!
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Post by deleted on Jun 22, 2024 12:43:30 GMT
twat
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Post by brummieboy on Jun 22, 2024 13:32:31 GMT
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Post by kris on Jun 22, 2024 17:27:03 GMT
No your definitely a twat.
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Post by brummieboy on Jun 22, 2024 18:04:54 GMT
It's usually Jim that relies on people spotting the ironic statement, but the usual suspects show their lack of insight.
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