Yes. There are things that are so easy to do. Having 6 pack multipack crisps as just buying 6 normal p packs gets you the discount. If we can't even do that is never going to change
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Yes. There are things that are so easy to do. Having 6 pack multipack crisps as just buying 6 normal p packs gets you the discount. If we can't even do that is never going to change
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no-one denies this. the difference is that in those previously warm times, that inevitably lead to higher sea levels and massive changes to low-lying coastlines, there weren't billions of people living next to the sea. There weren't billions of people being affected by increased frequency and severity of hurricanes, or twisters, or simple rainfall.
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Made me laugh when sky did the ocean rescue, yet when you buy a sky box it comes wrapped in no end of plastic. Not needed.
Like Foxeye said, we don't want to change. It's really that simple. Nobody wants to die, obviously....yet we're not prepared to do what's required.
Governments won't. That's obvious. Just read the leaked documents which came out this week from various countries.
It's one thing humans wanting to kill themselves, it's quite another taking innocent species down with them.
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But there weren't billions of people creating co2 then either and it still happened.
Yes, and it happened over a much slower period which allowed many species to adapt. This is happening rapidly. Nature doesn't adapt quickly.
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We have technology now
And how does that tech help every species on earth cope with things like changing alkalinity in the seas? Rapidly altering weather patterns (floods, drought, extremes of heat)? Food scarcity?
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That doesn't help all the other creatures and plants though does it.
Oh right, perhaps you could just buzz the coral reefs, the rainforests etc and beam some technology onto them and make them good again.
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Not to worry, the UK is going the lead the way, bankrupting us in the process. China and the US will follow our example.
Eh? The UK has one of the worst environmental records in the world, of all nations our nature is one of the most depleted. We arent leading the world with anything, unless depletion natural resources and biodiversity counts, then we are near the top.
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Exactly, don't you know we started this whole thing about 200 years ago.
Guilty guilty guilty.
Personally though if I lived in an area liable to flood I'd probably move house.
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A lot of places that have flooded or are liable to flood have some of the best flood defences in the country. We had a massive tidal flood that effected large parts of our town in 2013. It was the first time a flood of that nature in 50+ years. Since then we have had a new tidal barrier installed costing 100 million+.
Ice melt at the poles has sped up by 6 times over the last decade and if it keeps increasing that sea level rises of several metres could be possible.
It doesnt take much for big areas of the UK to disappear.
Great app here.
http://flood.firetree.net/
13m puts the sea just outside York, lincoln, Peterborough and Cambridge. They would all become seaside resorts!
Everything to the east of them would be under water.
Hull, Boston and great Yarmouth would all be under water.
What was left of Lincolnshire would become an island.
If water levels keep rising then Boston will be underwater anyway, no mater how much was spent on flood defences, unless you are going to build a sea wall round Boston?
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At 60m I wake up to the sea. Sweet.
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What a great investment..........for literally only the few folk who live where you do.
Living on flood planes should be at your own peril, not for us to pick up the cost of fixing.
Yeah lets just move London, shouldn't have built it on a flood plane.
Civilisation developed around rivers / coasts, moving all of that isn't really an option unless things get incredibly bad.
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You do realise that to reduce sea levels we could just irrigate Africa and plant forests to carbon capture?
It's not cheap but it would create jobs, infrastructure, biofuel.
Why am I picturing the iceberg scene from Brewster's millions?