Do older people need to have global warming explained to them?

So what do you suggest we do LinkyPinky and what are you doing?

Don't tell them LinkyPinky.

They'll come over all affronted then laugh at you.

We have a 4x4 because it can cope with what the weather throws at us in the sticks. I also have a powerful sports car for which I apologise to nobody.

We decided to have a wind tree in our garden. The saving in electricity would have been amazing, especially as we live at the top of a hill. Mentioning it to our neighbours, the complaints from young and old about the size, the interrupted views and potential damage to their well-being! Do you think we should go ahead?

I wouldn’t like it either if I was one of your neighbours. Ugly things. Your neighbours would derive no benefit from it, but would have to look at it.

I like charity shop buys. I’ve even ventured onto Vinted, but before I come over all virtuous about it, my DD reminded me that if nobody bought the new stuff to start with, business would fold, jobs would be lost, pushing more people into poverty and there’d be nothing in the charity shops or on Vinted to buy.

GSM
Exactly why we won’t do it!
I’m not convinced that the potential vibrations wouldn’t damage the house if we had one attached to the roof as was also an option. It was suggested by one of our zealous, what are you doing to save the planet? teenage friends. They haven’t got round to considering the neighbours yet.

Are you trying to save the planet?

Oh, the neighbours wouldn't like it.

Ah, fair enough...

nanna8

Including vegetarians in my experience. I like cabbage but not when it has been through someone’s digestive system.

That did make me laugh, nanna8
I was going to cook sprouts for dinner this evening then remembered I have to go to a meeting later.

Back to the serious business.

volver3

Are you trying to save the planet?

Oh, the neighbours wouldn't like it.

Ah, fair enough...

So you’d have gone ahead would you V3?
🤣🤣🤣

If everyone on the planet changes to a vegetarian diet, what would happen to all the animals which are now produced for food?

Presumably they would be freed, allowed to roam and reproduce and therefore produce even more methane?

Oh not this again...

They'd die out. We'd stop making them. We don't have to keep on artificially creating animals that are not a result of nature.

This argument about "oh will they all run free" is just so ridiculous.

volver3

Oh not this again...

They'd die out. We'd stop making them. We don't have to keep on artificially creating animals that are not a result of nature.

This argument about "oh will they all run free" is just so ridiculous.

As are some of your arguments. But do keep posting them. 🤣🤣🤣

Reported. I've had enough.

Me too. I’ll report it as well!

I hope none of my GCs try to explain global climate change to me. I might ask them when they are going to refuse to go on long haul flights twice a year (or more) with Mummy and Daddy. They think we are poor/mean because we drive a small car and have down sized to a small house. I could go on....

volver3

Oh not this again...

They'd die out. We'd stop making them. We don't have to keep on artificially creating animals that are not a result of nature.

This argument about "oh will they all run free" is just so ridiculous.

What is the evidence for the assertion that they would die out?

When previously domesticated animals become feral they may profilerate, not die out.

We'd stop making them.
I do know about artificial insemination but a feral cow and a feral bull don't need that to reproduce.

Are you doing this on purpose?

What?

No, just questioning as the evidence in many cases would seem to prove otherwise.

volver3

Are you doing this on purpose?

Are you?

Surely there'd be mass slaughter of farm animals. They wouldn't be turned out to roam. Or am I being naive?

Volver - much as you may like to, you do not own the threads so other posters s are entitled to express an opinion without being jumped on or asked if, when they express an alternative viewpoint, Are you doing this on purpose?

Well Callistemon, I don't want to be made fun of and asked daft questions about things that are obvious to a twelve year old, and take them at face value when they have been discussed at length previously.

We're not all going veggie overnight. We're actually not all going veggie at all. The proportion of veggies in the population will grow gradually and the number of farmed animals we need will decrease in proportion.

So no mass slaughter, no turning cows loose to become feral.

Oh, thank goodness! What a relief.

No millions of cows on our green and pleasant pastures then, no out of control sheep on our mountains green?

Not like the feral camels in Australia.
Or the sheep terrorising a Welsh town.