Fake News ?
[Link] (BBC website 8 Oct 2018 )

This has been going on since the Industrial Revolution and the world population explosion.
Funny how the press are touting politics as the solution.
Politics actually caused this, by the unequal wealth distribution and the clamour from Developing countries for new technology.
What did the developed world do ? We used India, Asia and Africa as dumping grounds for toxic waste and obsolete processes and products. (Union Carbide in Bhopal).

Does anyone think recycling my wine bottles is going to save The Earth, when China (for example) has no Environmental/Workplace Legislation and really doesn't give a 5hlt ? Will 50,000 people driving electric cars in the UK compensate for the 10M people driving 1960's Beetles around Africa and Asia ?

But don't panic. Nothing will happen for a few decades. It will be a slow and tortuous death for Humankind and the planet (assuming nuclear war doesn't get us first)

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (08 Oct 2018 7.40pm)

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

Slow news day ?

Beats the other headlines of some Strictly Dancers having a snog. I despair of the meeja. Unfit for purpose

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

It is a bit difficult to take becoming 'green' seriously when you know that China and India will be excreting plastic,greenhouse gasses and whatnot by the kiloton for years to come. Any action that happens has to be global or it ain't worth spit.
The only real way to approach this situation is to reduce demand, and the only way to do that is to reduce humans.

Well if we are 'reducing humans' would you like to do your bit and volunteer ??????????

Contraception seems to have worked for non stupid people.

That hits the nail on the head.

The population problem is not coming from the west.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)