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China admits ecological failings
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US solution to global warming: smoke and mirrors
I guess the concept of using less fuel is too far fetched... :rolleyes:
If you're referring to cutting down emissions via Kyoto-esque treaties, then absolutely nothing.....the amount of coal powered stations China is building to keep its economy growing shows that they don't give a toss about global warming, forget what people are saying look at what they are doing....
If the doomsayers are right it could take such a 'far fetched' proposal. Tbh I've thought it pretty far fetched to believe banning cars will tangibly affect the present course of climate change.
They need to be used more sensibly though. Or rather, we need to use more sensible cars instead of pointless monster trucks.
Cars (and indeed all forms of transport combined) make up a small proportion of overall carbon dioxide emissions.
This constant hounding of 4x4 or SUVs got tedious a long time ago. Do you really believe that if every owner of a 'monster truck' swapped it for a hybrid climate change would miraculously stop?
The reason why people go about irresponsible vehicles is because that is the contributing factor of global warming that can be tackled most easily. All we need is for those people who don't actually need a 4x4 (i.e. 95% of them) to stop acting like selifsh twats and to switch to a more responsible vehicle.
Don't be so single minded, everyone here seems to get that way but it is simply not the case. Even if having greener cars has no significant effect on climate change, at the very least london won't make me feel a whole new kind of dirty whenever i visit. Black snot is NOT normal.
One would hope so, but it is doubtful.
With a little help I think we could get them to convert most of those to 'clean coal' which in real terms costs next to nothing and there would be no emissions at all (or at least very few).
China is getting richer, and like all rich countries eventually you get rich enough to give a toss about the environment.
'Give a toss' or 'not give a toss'? I dunno how to read that?
He wrote it correctly.
Exactly, people only started giving a toss about organic this and fair trade that when they could afford to give a toss about it. We totally destroyed our natural environment because we were poor and it was a resource, we now expect other countries to behave differently.
Ah ok ... I didn't quite know what he meant by that grammatically. Most people might say that they 'wouldn't give a toss' about something - but 'giving a toss' is perhaps less used, but still valid.
I have no issue with his argument by the way. It was just a question of understanding the grammar ...