Climate protesters block roads
Discussion
slartibartfast said:
lornemalvo said:
Greta Thunberg doesn't have to endure a horrible commute to work, or worry about losing pay for being late, or put food on the table and pay the bills, or support a family. She's an inconsiderate, ill informed zealot
I once wrote similar on one of the XR facebook pages, someone wrote back words to the effect of 'Your commute to work will end with rising tides, famine and death' or words to that effect.Some of them have turned it into a death cult/end of the world religion.
personally I wish they all f
k off and get back to work and help the world go around.... wkers!wc98 said:
Digga said:
Blakewater said:
GOATever said:
Can the money not be taken as proceeds of crime and put towards the costs to the police and victims of the protests? What about the people who've lost business or had their wages docked because of the disruption?BBC said:
anded in his notice at Nest - the National Employment Savings Trust
re the bold, at least there is one person at the bbc with a sense of humour .not a word that many, if any,would associate with these clowns.
Digga said:
wc98 said:
Digga said:
Blakewater said:
GOATever said:
Can the money not be taken as proceeds of crime and put towards the costs to the police and victims of the protests? What about the people who've lost business or had their wages docked because of the disruption?BBC said:
anded in his notice at Nest - the National Employment Savings Trust
re the bold, at least there is one person at the bbc with a sense of humour .not a word that many, if any,would associate with these clowns.
I don't suppose XR protesters are paying income tax on what XR is paying them. I wonder if XR is paying into a pensions scheme for them as, in a way, it's acting as an employer.
People like this guy quitting their jobs to join XR are basically just examples of people having nervous breakdowns. They can't cope with life, work and their responsibilities so chuck it all in to be Hippies. They just try to dress it up to be a rational choice.
People like this guy quitting their jobs to join XR are basically just examples of people having nervous breakdowns. They can't cope with life, work and their responsibilities so chuck it all in to be Hippies. They just try to dress it up to be a rational choice.
Edited by Blakewater on Tuesday 29th October 20:57
Blakewater said:
I don't suppose XR protesters are paying income tax on what XR is paying them. I wonder if XR is paying into a pensions scheme for them as, in a way, it's acting as an employer.
People like this guy quitting their jobs to join XR are basically just examples of people having nervous breakdowns. They can't cope with life, work and their responsibilities so chuck it all in to be Hippies. They just try to dress it up to be a rational choice.
Plus as a middle aged guy you get to hang around with lots of impressionable young girlies. People like this guy quitting their jobs to join XR are basically just examples of people having nervous breakdowns. They can't cope with life, work and their responsibilities so chuck it all in to be Hippies. They just try to dress it up to be a rational choice.
Edited by Blakewater on Tuesday 29th October 20:57
motco said:
I hope none of the little darlings have asthma because the carbon footprint of inhalers is apparently equivalent to that of meat-eaters! 
True. Researchers at Cambridge University have found that it would be better to switch to dry powder inhalers as it would save the NHS million of pounds and it would help combat climate change.Asthmatic attacks have the potential to kill. If I'm wheezing uncontrollably and have minutes left to live, screw f
king climate change. It's a matter of self-preservation.T-195 said:
motco said:
I hope none of the little darlings have asthma because the carbon footprint of inhalers is apparently equivalent to that of meat-eaters!
Heard that earlier.Asthma sufferers will be shot at dawn.
Langweilig said:
Researchers at Cambridge University have found that it would be better to switch to dry powder inhalers as it would save the NHS million of pounds and it would help combat climate change.
Asthmatic attacks have the potential to kill. If I'm wheezing uncontrollably and have minutes left to live, screw fking climate change. It's a matter of self-preservation.
You were already spot on when you got to "It's a matter of" and nothing changed afterwards Asthmatic attacks have the potential to kill. If I'm wheezing uncontrollably and have minutes left to live, screw f
king climate change. It's a matter of self-preservation.
Langweilig said:
motco said:
I hope none of the little darlings have asthma because the carbon footprint of inhalers is apparently equivalent to that of meat-eaters!
True. Researchers at Cambridge University have found that it would be better to switch to dry powder inhalers as it would save the NHS million of pounds and it would help combat climate change.Asthmatic attacks have the potential to kill. If I'm wheezing uncontrollably and have minutes left to live, screw f
king climate change. It's a matter of self-preservation.a. Educate suffers to use their inhalers correctly – very few of the asthmatics I know use them correctly (they tend to just puff into open mouths like fresh-great scary) which means they use them far more than they need to.
b. The plastic component of the aerosol inhalers is perfectly reusable, but instead they're disposable. It would be easy to beef that up into a less disposable artefact and just dole out the aerosol cans that plug in. Those components are are metal and easily recyclable.
Rupert Reid has been trying to draw children into his Doomesday cult.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/29/climate-scientists-...
It was interesting to note that the politically correct brigade on Twitter weren't so keen to uphold science when they responded to a tweet from Cancer Research about obesity being one of the leading causes of Cancer. They were quick to insist saying such a thing was fat shaming and it's not true at all that being obese is bad for your health. There were many responses claiming this from the sort of people who feel the need to state their pronouns on their Twitter profiles.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/29/climate-scientists-...
It was interesting to note that the politically correct brigade on Twitter weren't so keen to uphold science when they responded to a tweet from Cancer Research about obesity being one of the leading causes of Cancer. They were quick to insist saying such a thing was fat shaming and it's not true at all that being obese is bad for your health. There were many responses claiming this from the sort of people who feel the need to state their pronouns on their Twitter profiles.
Langweilig said:
True. Researchers at Cambridge University have found that it would be better to switch to dry powder inhalers as it would save the NHS million of pounds and it would help combat climate change.
Asthmatic attacks have the potential to kill. If I'm wheezing uncontrollably and have minutes left to live, screw fking climate change. It's a matter of self-preservation.
I was quite asthmatic in my late teens... the dry powder inhalers were not easy to use.Asthmatic attacks have the potential to kill. If I'm wheezing uncontrollably and have minutes left to live, screw f
king climate change. It's a matter of self-preservation.The climate impact of ventolin inhalers must be trivial compared to other aerosol products surely.
In any case they are life saving.
Dying from an asthma attack certainly ‘ruins ones childhood’ more than sailing across the Atlantic on a carbon yacht
eccles said:
alfaman said:
The climate impact of ventolin inhalers must be trivial compared to other aerosol products surely.
Maybe read the news story, you'll be surprised!768 said:
Yeah, I think I read that it came out as 4% of the entire NHS carbon output. Which I'd suggest is pretty significant and at least worth looking at.
Erm when the UK only produces <1% of global CO2 emission and inhalers only produce 4% of NHS emissions then the word "significant" becomes insignificant.Context is very useful when discussing numbers.
768 said:
eccles said:
alfaman said:
The climate impact of ventolin inhalers must be trivial compared to other aerosol products surely.
Maybe read the news story, you'll be surprised!Other aerosols use things like Butane, CO2 or, I think, compressed air as a propellant, each of which has a much smaller greenhouse effect.
if we are starting to look at climate change impact of health products, shouldn't we be looking at pill packaging? Some people are on eight or so different prescription pills a day, the amount of plastic and foil used to package all those pills individually plus the colourful card boxes and included paper leaflets that all go straight in the bin is incredible. All because the public cant be trusted to take pills out of glass bottles or small tubs any more, they have to be packaged in individual pill blister packs.
alangla said:
I thought it wasn't CO2, it was CO2 equivalent and the inhalers were reported as using HydroFlouroAlkane - I'd imagine that's probably not that different from Methane or a CFC in terms of its greenhouse effect.
Other aerosols use things like Butane, CO2 or, I think, compressed air as a propellant, each of which has a much smaller greenhouse effect.
Air?! How disgraceful.Other aerosols use things like Butane, CO2 or, I think, compressed air as a propellant, each of which has a much smaller greenhouse effect.
Next you'll be telling me it contains Hydrogen Dioxide
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