strawberries in a top box

I only really read a newspaper at weekends and still usually get the
Indy on a Saturday.

I've now boycotted the Sunday one because since the revamp, they have
committed the heinous crime of replacing the back page sports headlines
with a full-page advert.

 

You have it in a nutshell.
Yes the world is warming *in places*. Is this in general a bad thing? I
very much doubt it. Some deserts will get bigger and sandier, other
areas will get wetter, warmer and much greener, the global crop yield
will improve.

I am greatly amused at the recent announcement that our Sun is not an
important variable in the system. One can assume if enough of us come to
believe it so the Earth will spin off out into deep space AND continue
to get warmer.

I have temporarily modified my sig to stress my own CO2 contribution ;o)

 

Oh I like this new development. Do they have any conception of the
amount of commercial radio and television generated radiation around
them? not to mention radar near airports.

 

We're quite careful about buying local produce where we can, for a
number of reasons, not least to save air miles and road/train miles.
I'd be sad to be labelled eco-hysteric because of it.

 

I think this whole 'buy-local' bandwagon is itself a sign that
eco-hysteria has now reached all levels of society. I'll continue to
base my fod shopping on flavour and price above all else - if the
local produce is cheaper by virtue of lower transport costs then it'll
all work itself out, but if not then tough.

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Well since you're in France now, getting chicory shouldn't be a problem...

D.

 

I recall one study (the exact details of which I don't recall) which
pointed out that one person's transatlantic flight produced as much
greenhouse gas as produced by an African during five years of life or
something like that.

The 'iconoclasts' who want to continue to live their lifestyle that is
harmful to the planet, are only lying to themselves.

AFAIK, none of the previous changes was due to human activity. Was there a
****-off hole in the ozone layer before? Were the changes ever as fast or
as damaging to the various species living on the planet?

D.

 

Fair point. My belief, however, and it is only that, is that the
direction of natural climate change will be to the detriment of human
existance and so should not be exacerbated.

I really do not envy my daughter the world in which she may be living
in 50 years time. I'm happy to risk her remembering me as an old
eccentric with an unnecessary preoccupation with the environment if it
means she'll never curse me for not even trying to help slow down its
deterioration.

 

As is your right. Taking the opposite view, however, is not
necessarily a symptom of eco-hysteria.

Anyway, I'm a man so I can't be hysterical!

 

presumably because the changes we cause are toxic to our own species,
rather than to others.

 

If only ..

'Human beings are currently causing the greatest mass extinction of
species since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. If
present trends continue one half of all species of life on earth will
be extinct in less than 100 years, as a result of habitat destruction,
pollution, invasive species, and climate change'
(http://www.well.com/~davidu/extinction.html)

D.

 

Oh, well _done_ !! What a _wonderful_ _non_sequitur_ !!

D.

 

Are you suer you're not trying to tell us something?

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You Googled all of that, didn't you?

Quite.

 

No - but it's a good start..

Why fly fruit halfway round the world when you don't need to? It grows
here perfectly adequately so why import it?

Rubbish. Out of season srawbs maybe but stuff grown in season won't
have been.

Phil.

 

*Ding*

Phil.

 

Well yes. But then the media have never been famed for producing an
in-depth, impartial and cogent view of anything other than the bottom
of a whisky bottle. Or a claret jug.

I was ranting about this the other day - the planets will survive
global warming just fine. The ecosystem on the other hand will be
dramatically changed..

Just like it was with snowball earth, the Jurassic period etc etc.

As you say - the only constant it change. Species rise, species die.

As some specialised niches become available species will specialise in
order to fill them.

Phil.

 

Er ... and ?

*shrug*

D.

 

Iconoclast alert!!

D.

 

So which factories make Hondas/Suzukis/Kawasakis here then?

Hint - you are not comparing like with like.

We *grow* strawberries naturally at this time of year. So why fly them
in from the US and incur a large energy-debt?

Phil.