Climate Change

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, Farmer Saint said:

But that cost will only be passed onto the consumer.

The issue where we are is actually not that we don't have enough water (and this is common for a lot of the UK), it's that it can't be treated quick enough to satisfy demand.

Additional reservoirs would help, but more treatment plants are really what is needed, and is a cheaper and quicker fix than desalination.

Too many people. And getting worse. 

[Farmer Saint]

4 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Too many people. And getting worse. 

But you have to have a structure to allow for people growth - declining populations are bad for economic growth.

The issue is also the geography and demographics of those people, making the country more balanced would allow that to happen. It's easy to have infrastructure if it is well planned and not kicked down the road as Governments tend to do.

[Whitey Grandad]

10 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

But you have to have a structure to allow for people growth - declining populations are bad for economic growth.

The issue is also the geography and demographics of those people, making the country more balanced would allow that to happen. It's easy to have infrastructure if it is well planned and not kicked down the road as Governments tend to do.

I challenge your first statement.

Increasing populations are bad for social and economic health. The relentless pursuit of Mammon to the exclusion of quality of life is a big mistake. 

1 Timothy 6:10

"For the love of money is the root of all evil:"
 

🎶 You never go to night clubs and you just don't care to dance

       You don't have time for silly things like moonlight and romance

       You only think of dollar bills tied neatly in a stack

        But when you kiss a dollar bill, it doesn't kiss you back 🎶

[Wiggles31]

Fucking stupid national alarm. Scared me to death for 5 seconds!

[badgerx16]

4 minutes ago, Wiggles31 said:

Fucking stupid national alarm. Scared me to death for 5 seconds!

We had 3 phones going off at the same time.

[Matthew Le God]

The alert scared me so much I knocked over my disposable barbecue into a box of fireworks, and it burned down my shed. Is that what they wanted?

[whelk]

53 minutes ago, Wiggles31 said:

Fucking stupid national alarm. Scared me to death for 5 seconds!

I thought my doorbell needed a new battery

[Turkish]

I didn’t get one but I’m out of the country obviously they don’t give a shit about those who aren’t here but they’ll want my taxes soon as we land back home 

[Turkish]

Anyway shouldn’t this be on the weather thread not the climate change one? We were told short period of hot, wet or cold were weather not climate change 

[bpsaint]

1 hour ago, Wiggles31 said:

Fucking stupid national alarm. Scared me to death for 5 seconds!

I wonder how many people had their phones on silent for all sorts of important reasons only to have their evening ruined by alarms telling them that it’s hot and not to make any fires.

Edited 3 hours ago by bpsaint

[trousers]

1 hour ago, Matthew Le God said:

The alert scared me so much I knocked over my disposable barbecue into a box of fireworks, and it burned down my shed. Is that what they wanted?

We're they 'Standard' fireworks...?

 

 

 

[Sheaf Saint]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

I didn’t get one but I’m out of the country obviously they don’t give a shit about those who aren’t here but they’ll want my taxes soon as we land back home 

They go to all phones on the national network. We were in Athens at Easter and got one on our phones about severe thunderstorms headed our way. 

It rained. A bit. 

[whelk]

1 hour ago, bpsaint said:

I wonder how many people had their phones on silent for all sorts of important reasons only to have their evening ruined by alarms telling them that it’s hot and not to make any fires.

Yeah must have been a nightmare for all the peeping Toms