the village idiot
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Purchasing 25 acre oak stand in France
the village idiot replied to JonnoR's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
No worries. Not sure of the practicalities of planting a companion tree crop in an orchard. Alder is used as a 'nurse' crop (encouraging other tree species up and straight, commonly Oak). Haven't heard of this technique in orchards. May be counterproductive?? -
Have you not met Mrs Difflock?
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Purchasing 25 acre oak stand in France
the village idiot replied to JonnoR's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
That's very true, but if coppiced for firewood they'll outlive an Oak. -
Purchasing 25 acre oak stand in France
the village idiot replied to JonnoR's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
This is good shout if you can get hold of it. Fine around water, grows like hot stink, coppices brilliantly, browse resistant, good for wildlife, decent firewood, lovely mature tree too. Very overlooked species in my humble opinion. -
And attention. Watch people in any public space on their phones. It is making some people an awful lot of money and robbing us of our ability to connect properly with the real world.
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In Desperate times...My Silky saves the day!
the village idiot replied to silky fox's topic in The Lounge
I spent an age searching for mine. I'd almost given up all hope. Blow me if it wasn't there all along, under me bleedin' foot. -
Think it's a she, but the question remains perfectly valid.
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Some boffin has just calculated the value of Pi to 31.4 trillion decimal places. Apparently it would take 332,000 years to read the number out loud!?
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We're not really getting anywhere here. Can you spell out what it is you have found? Genuinely interested.
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Ooh! I'm feeling right alpha. Prepare to be minced, Robins!
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And in your view, where should the answers lead?
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Bit too cryptic for my little brain. Can you be a bit more specific.
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Might be best for thread integrity if we take this one outside. I'll just get us started. You lookin' at my bird?
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Dawkins has spent the last 30 years trying to introduce reason and rationality to the unreasonable and irrational. It's a monumental and largely thankless task. Very important too. I'm not at all surprised he gets a little warm under the collar.
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This is another Christopher Monckton article. Please look him up everybody.
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Carbon capture machines, but as you say, very expensive. Biomass converted to biochar/charcoal and incorporated into soils. Seaweed grown in ocean, cut and sunk to sea floor. These are just the ones I've heard about, I haven't researched it further.
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There are lots of ways to 'fix' carbon out of the atmosphere. Some of which would improve economies if pursued sensibly. There is no reason in theory why we couldn't fix more carbon out of the atmosphere than we put in. We just need a wealthy country or countries to grab the bull by the horns. Obviously the less carbon we put into the atmosphere the less extensive the remedies have to be.
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Look up 'effects of rising global temperatures on human civilisation'. Death, Flooding, Mass migration, food shortage, freshwater shortage, forest fires, hurricanes etc etc. Suffering. Reduced temperature increase, reduced suffering.
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Removing CO2 from the atmosphere would help in both those cases.
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Remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
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? That's a bit like asking a Vegan to pick his favourite cut of meat.
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It is only my personal take on it Ian. Really like the milk in the fridge analogy.?
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Limit it, to the best of our collective ability.
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Nice post Ian. As I see it, what matters is suffering. The suffering of any concious creature that is capable of it. The current predicament could certainly just be viewed as a blip in geological time but that is kind of besides the point because we have the opportunity to alleviate suffering now and in the future. In a way, it doesn't really matter if global warming isn't human caused. The crux of the matter is that the climate is changing in a manner that is going to cause an immense amount of suffering to concious creatures, particularly humans, and we are in a position to do something about that. If we choose to. The idea put forward by Hairychest that we are on a pre-ordained path is dangerous. It cannot be adequately substantiated and it serves as a disturbing justification for glossing over needless suffering.
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OK!? I'm genuinely trying very hard not to conclude that you haven't just cherry picked convenient snippets of various Eastern and Western religious philosophies, added in some very current right wing conspiracy theorising, to concoct a personal narrative which makes you feel comfortable with behaving however you want. You seem convinced that there is a goal being achieved. This necessitates a goal setter, outside of human timescales. Can you articulate who or what has set the definitive agenda/path/final destination for this "man made World", and what convinces you that this 'goal oriented' entity/entities exists?
