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[sime42]

1 hour ago, eggsarascal said:

To an extent, in my last place I had a good size garden with a veg plot and a fair size greenhouse and what was left of an orchard, fruit and veg was plentiful. Does that mean I shouldn’t be able to access out of season fruit and veg?

To an extent, yes.

I'm fairly certain that reducing the consumption of out of season produce that's been grown thousands of miles away will reduce the scandalous amount of food waste that we have in this country.

A homegrown cabbage or turnip say, will have a far greater shelf life than a Liz Truss. Unlike a lettuce, or other salad vegetable or soft fruit.

 

 

[GarethM]

I got the rough idea of where you meant, just don't tar the whole industry.

 

Parts of Pacific ocean might not be a bad idea, providing they can get close to the tectonic plates as the earth is one huge nuclear reactor garbage disposal.

 

What other solution do you have ?, Or the 139+ tons of pure plutonium we have at sellafield ?

[eggsarascal]

Is it underinvestment, or something else? Stoke (for example) is a massive hub with huge distribution warehouses that stand next to rundown sites, couldn’t theses sites be redeveloped to grow our fruit and veg with recovered heat?… I know I’m miles off money, I’d like to think it could work.

[waterbuoy]

They could, but in part it all comes down to what the consumer is prepared to pay.  If UK apple growers are pulling out acres of apple trees because they can't afford to store the apples they grow, and the last year's crop are being left on the ground to rot, it is going to take some huge gonads to try and turn brownfield sites into something which makes economic sense for food production.

[GarethM]

Probably more out pricing land values.

Like the warehousing around the football stadium, pets at home eventually ended up moving out to a humongous greenfield site.

[Macpherson]

1 hour ago, GarethM said:

What other solution do you have ?,

 

Simples.. Stop small greedy minds fecking with everything that really matters... do it OFF WORLD or don't do it at all... this spherical petri dish floating in a vacuum really doesn't need any more totally uncontrolled poisoners or the digital infiltration of the previous organic' process of counting '...that was called evolution.

 

I'm a very big advocate of the { mostly hidden from us }  golden ratio or Fibonacci number sequence which describes all of nature and science and everything in the universe perfectly... It's how your crops grow.. I'm sure you know this🙄

 

 

[GarethM]

Nuclear power is natural, just remember every piece of lead was once a glowing ball of radioactive death.

 

Time and decay left it harmless.

[Macpherson]

7 hours ago, GarethM said:

Nuclear power is natural, just remember every piece of lead was once a glowing ball of radioactive death.

 

Time and decay left it harmless.

 

Whilst I would agree that the understanding and being able to control of the building blocks of Nature will likely be fundamental to our future, if we have a future...

 

I'd have to say that our infantile use of a technology which we barely understand, inside the closed system that is our biosphere is reckless beyond belief and will almost without doubt be our undoing.. and will expose the same fate to every other living creature on the planet..🙄

 

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Edited February 25, 2023 by Macpherson

[Johnsond]

Scots won't get 20p cash back in bottle deposit scheme storm due to 'gaping flaw', trade chiefs warn

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SCOTS won’t be able to get back their 20p under the controversial new deposit-return scheme if a...

Another SNP belter, sadly the grip the two green lunatics have over the SNP ( basically two made up ministerial posts that give the SNP a parliamentary majority) is totally out of all proportion to the tiny handful of fools who vote for Slater and that deviant Harvey. 

Edited February 25, 2023 by Johnsond

[GarethM]

Whilst I agree somewhat, I've worked and built machinery for the NDA & Magnox and even been in a few power stations.

 

So have spent a lot of time reading about most things nuclear as it became something of a subject of intrigue.

 

Definitely agree about the MSM and the bull about fossil fuel, nothing wrong with living frugally tho and striving to use less or more efficiently.

 

I choose to not listen to the daily tripe, you'll feel better for not listening to the hyped up doom mongering 🙂.