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What are YOU doing to mitigate against Climate Change?
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7797448" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>My parents never had a foreign holiday holiday, never flew, made one car last for years, lived modestly using small machinery on a small farm, heated the place with firewood. Dad often said economic growth would be -26% if everybody lived like he did.</p><p>The thing is though they were and you are generally ridiculed for living carefully. Consumption of high levels of resources is such an ingrained part of society that it’s almost impossible to go against it. Even msny of the so called green technologies are only really just further consumption of resources on a huge scale, electric vehicles being a typical case.</p><p>It’s a hell of a job weaning folk off high consumption and really the economy seems to depend on it.</p><p>So I’m not sure really. I resist foreign holidays though I’m called a misery guts by my family. I resist buying tat and rubbish for birthdays or Christmas only to see disappointment. I extend the life of machinery as far as possible, depriving dealers of commission and a living. We heat the house with firewood though apparently it’s carcinogenic but well so is sunlight.</p><p>We might put some solar up., we would put a turbine up if there wasn’t a local outcry otherwise we try to achieve optimum crop output for the inputs used and every time I go to spend some money I ask myself do if really need that? Not only does it save money but it saves resources.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7797448, member: 2119"] My parents never had a foreign holiday holiday, never flew, made one car last for years, lived modestly using small machinery on a small farm, heated the place with firewood. Dad often said economic growth would be -26% if everybody lived like he did. The thing is though they were and you are generally ridiculed for living carefully. Consumption of high levels of resources is such an ingrained part of society that it’s almost impossible to go against it. Even msny of the so called green technologies are only really just further consumption of resources on a huge scale, electric vehicles being a typical case. It’s a hell of a job weaning folk off high consumption and really the economy seems to depend on it. So I’m not sure really. I resist foreign holidays though I’m called a misery guts by my family. I resist buying tat and rubbish for birthdays or Christmas only to see disappointment. I extend the life of machinery as far as possible, depriving dealers of commission and a living. We heat the house with firewood though apparently it’s carcinogenic but well so is sunlight. We might put some solar up., we would put a turbine up if there wasn’t a local outcry otherwise we try to achieve optimum crop output for the inputs used and every time I go to spend some money I ask myself do if really need that? Not only does it save money but it saves resources. [/QUOTE]
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