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Colour me shocked!

Oh right, I remember. Probably either Antifa or Greenpeace arsonists, generally.

I forget in what context you brought up volcanoes and forest fires, so this isn't necessarily directed at you, I just remember seeing someone mention them a few pages back. m2-res_640p.mp4 Which emits more carbon dioxide: volcanoes or human activities? | NOAA Climate.gov WWW.CLIMATE.GOV Human activities emit 60 or more times the amount of carbon dioxide released by volcanoes each year. Regarding volcanoes, they are abdrop in the bucket compared to human output. Regarding forest fires, despite them being an essential regenerative process for various ecosystems all over the planet, they are of course getting bigger, more destructive, and more widespread as a result of climate change - hotter temperatures, longer droughts, etc. - and hitting areas that have not evolved to accommodate them; on top of the inevitable release of CO2, of which I'm not sure how the "natural" forest fires stack up against the "unnatural" ones, plus the regular human emissions. That'd be some interesting data to find.

In 2035 we'll be eating hawthorn leaves and dreaming about the delicious squirrels we've hunted to extinction, while wishing we'd put solar panels on everyone's roof and insulation in everyone's attic back in the early 21st century when we had the opportunity to do so for the umpteenth time. But yeah, let's blame Bono instead of BP and Monsanto.

I hear you, I really do. But let's touch base in the year 2035 and we can chat about expansion then.

There you go with that dinosaur vocab again. Not everything has to make a profit.

Yep, I agree. Also, switch to solar, wind, and nuclear, and cut down on your energy usage. Also eat the rich.

Yep. Better than being burned in people's stoves at home, better than being buried in a hedge. Not as good as being sealed into an coal mine to take it out of circulation and limit the microplastic pollution, but it's one of the least worst options available to us. There are often no easy answers, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

I do worry that it'll reduce enthusiasm for recycling among the people who've been doing it for decades, without encouraging the people who just bin it all or throw it in a hedge to come to the fold. Still, let's give it a go, see what happens.

I knew a girl like that once.

Yep. Stop buying stuff from China.

I'm plant-based.

Nah, you're grand. It's like yelling in the wind at this stage.

I mean, this is exactly what the trouble is. Dinosaurs who don't appreciate the scale of the problem, and are unwilling to make, or even acknowledge, any of the changes necessary to stop the planet from becoming incompatible with complex life. The history books about this time period are gonna be freakin' wild, man. You know... if there's anyone left to write 'em.

By your numbers there, and my napkin maths, we are 3.5 times dirtier than your average Chinese person. But yeah, stop buying stuff from China. Also, stop flying, don't set fire to things you don't need to, stop using weedkiller, cut out as much meat and dairy from your diet as you can stand, stop dredging the ocean, eat more farmed mussels and oysters, try and avoid plastic as much as possible, stop voting for people actively clamouring for the destruction of the planet, protect what little wilderness we have left and try to rewild as much as you can... ...you know, all the stuff the scientists have been advising for the last 40 years or so. Cheers.

Only 2 here, not loads, but we keep banging on about it because unless we change the way we use our planet, our children are going to starve to death. Sorry to sound like a broken record, but yeah. Buy local, don't fly, don't buy stuff from China, etc.

I don't think you should be allowed a stove or fireplace in any kind of urban area. If you're out in the sticks, hundreds of metres from your neighbours, burn away. I feel sorry for people living in the closest urban centre to me, where burning coal, peat, and wet wood is still the done thing. Air quality is terrible. This isn't the 1700s, we've moved on. I'll be fitting a stove this summer hopefully, of course.

Following surgery on the right middle finger, any unexpected contact or a sudden knock was hugely painful for about 14, 15 months after. I'm at 21 months now, and it's a lot better. Aggressive massage in hot water with an arnica cream afterwards as often as you can, and continue to be patient.

A bit like the royal ring piece...

Crikey, Nostradamus knocked it out of the park there.

Quite correct: all evidence has been swept under the rug and deleted from the thread.

Hasn't stopped anyone before...

Ah, I think you'll find, actually, that jokes concerning the mortality of the Royal Family are not well received in the jokes thread. Fingers start wagging. Maybe it'll be different this time around though, on account of King Sausage being an absolute twazzock.

Prolly a fackin' sleeper agent innit.

I know! It's a world apart. I wouldn’t like to carry my tree harness up 1500m of ascent in the Alps though. Might try a day of tree work in my skinny skimo (ski mountaineering) harness one day, see how bruised my hips can get.