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hifiandmtb

hifiandmtb

Sphincter beanie
Humans simply don't see the value in the environment:

www.theguardian.com

‘Catastrophic’: Sierra Leone sells rainforest for Chinese harbour

Controversial deal with China would be disastrous for fishing and protected rainforest, say opponents
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

“People are making this fuss about it,” the minister added. “I would just appeal to people: ‘be patient, we want to be developed, we want to grow, we want to be classified as an upcoming country. There must be development and somebody has to sacrifice.’
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hifiandmtb

hifiandmtb

Sphincter beanie
But China is declaring they are on the pathway for carbon neutrality:



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The planet’s emitting around 40GtC02 annually.

Just wait & see what a total shit show COP26 turns out to be.

The COVID recovery focus is almost a deliberate distraction from the CC issue. All this talk about reopening borders & returning to business as usual as soon as possible - where’s the CC discussion in all this.

Oh that’s right they aren’t connected
 
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Ultra Lord

Ultra Lord

Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
Now the chant “Scomo’s a wanker” has started up.
Haha!
Pretty good.

Edit: apparently they have multiple “fuck you scomo” chants. Gotta mix it up.
 
Asininedrivel

Asininedrivel

caviar connoisseur
hifiandmtb said:
But China is declaring they are on the pathway for carbon neutrality:



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The planet’s emitting around 40GtC02 annually.

Just wait & see what a total shit show COP26 turns out to be.

The COVID recovery focus is almost a deliberate distraction from the CC issue. All this talk about reopening borders & returning to business as usual as soon as possible - where’s the CC discussion in all this.

Oh that’s right they aren’t connected
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Flow-Rider

Flow-Rider

Burner
hifiandmtb said:
But China is declaring they are on the pathway for carbon neutrality:



View attachment 375483
The planet’s emitting around 40GtC02 annually.

Just wait & see what a total shit show COP26 turns out to be.

The COVID recovery focus is almost a deliberate distraction from the CC issue. All this talk about reopening borders & returning to business as usual as soon as possible - where’s the CC discussion in all this.

Oh that’s right they aren’t connected
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Is that before or after they dump everything into the ocean ?

They're nothing but grubs, everything they do that's not ethical is done where the public eye around the world can't see it. There was a picture posted on the net from a recycling plant in a bone yard of millions of dumped tyres and they blocked anyone from outside of China getting onto that site to look, I wouldn't trust a word they say.
 
pink poodle

pink poodle

気が狂っている男
Shush you lot! They were here this week and there will be jobs now. Gaseous glorious jobs. Apparently the private sector failed to deliver...
 
Haakon

Haakon

has an accommodating arse
Tomago aloominum plant saying it’s great because it will help them, they had to close down several times in recent weeks.

What he didn’t say is that there was no power shortage. A gas plant owned by snowy hydro had declined to turn on because the price wasn’t high enough and Tomago made the choice to switch off rather than pay what the price had peaked to. No power shortages.

What’s to say this new one won’t turn on until prices are above what tomago wants to pay anyway? This is just a free market at work - the power is there, the vendor has a price and it’s up to the smelter to operate in that market. They jsut got used to massively subsided power….
 
Flow-Rider

Flow-Rider

Burner
In the long run the Green groups are best off letting people enjoy the forests, if there's no attachment or sense of ownership, that will mean less defence for the forests and the more distant they are, the less they'll care about them. If there's anything Green groups can do, it's educate on how to use Forests rather than their aggressive stance to lock people out.
 
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silentbutdeadly

silentbutdeadly

has some good things to say
Flow-Rider said:
In the long run the Green groups are best off letting people enjoy the forests, if there's no attachment or sense of ownership, that will mean less defence for the forests and the more distant they are, the less they'll care about them. If there's anything Green groups can do, it's educate on how to use Forests rather than their aggressive stance to lock people out.
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Too many Australians these days don't have the time/money/interest/knowledge/capacity to even think about visiting a forest (or anything resembling such a thing) anyway. In other words...we don't need to lock people out. Actually, we don't lock people out...we just don't let them drive in. They are more than welcome to walk. Or try and ride the odd fire trail...
 
Flow-Rider

Flow-Rider

Burner
silentbutdeadly said:
Too many Australians these days don't have the time/money/interest/knowledge/capacity to even think about visiting a forest (or anything resembling such a thing) anyway. In other words...we don't need to lock people out. Actually, we don't lock people out...we just don't let them drive in. They are more than welcome to walk. Or try and ride the odd fire trail...
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We have lots of parks in qld that you can't legally MTB in or camp, fish or do many other recreational activities, as the years go on the land gets sold off to developers and down it all goes. I often come across people doing the wrong thing, but it's often they don't know any better or the consequences of what they're doing, a small minority couldn't care less but you get that with everything.
 
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silentbutdeadly

silentbutdeadly

has some good things to say
Flow-Rider said:
We have lots of parks in qld that you can't legally MTB in or camp, fish or do many other recreational activities, as the years go on the land gets sold off to developers and down it all goes. I often come across people doing the wrong thing, but it's often they don't know any better or the consequences of what they're doing, a small minority couldn't care less but you get that with everything.
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Same story in NSW and Victoria. In NSW, pretty much all public lands are controlled by one Department with various silos within the Department having responsibility for various types of tenure. Some of these silos divest their responsibilities to local government, others keep it in house. All have policies/rules etc around human use ranging from unfettered access to no public access. Compliance ranges from none to book throwing though the latter is uncommon because it is time consuming and resource intensive and the value of the fines rarely cover the costs of getting them...unless you are thick enough to collect a load of firewood from or take a dog attired with pig hunting gear into a National Park or nature reserve...

Unfortunately, there's not many policies or plans about managing public lands to contribute to the attenuation of climate change and its impacts on ecosystem services.
 
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