Plastic bags, climate change, renewable energy,

Calvin27

Eats Squid
use the sun to dry your clothes not the clothes dryer because it takes an hour and it's more convenient for you so that you get an 1hr more to sip a Latte with your friends. The world is truly fucked and we're following countries like the US down their dirty hole of capitalism, we just haven't learnt.
+1. Basically people dry their clothes with a dryer because they don't have time, they don't have time because they are working so bloody much to pay for a house and the said house is crap because they can't afford he quality because house prices are shot and they would prefer to save 30 minutes in a commute rather than get decent insulation. Capitalism may not be perfect and Churchill (or was it Thatcher) said it's the best we got. But the obvious challenge here is it is incompatible with the environmental constraints we have.
 

Flow-Rider

Burner
+1. Basically people dry their clothes with a dryer because they don't have time, they don't have time because they are working so bloody much to pay for a house and the said house is crap because they can't afford he quality because house prices are shot and they would prefer to save 30 minutes in a commute rather than get decent insulation. Capitalism may not be perfect and Churchill (or was it Thatcher) said it's the best we got. But the obvious challenge here is it is incompatible with the environmental constraints we have.
Compounded by building up and not out then having little space to hang clothes but that's opening more cans of worms. I think we all want too much and our expectations of living like Roman Kings & Queens is taking its toll.
 

Ultra Lord

Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
In a huge win for our client the Australian Conservation Foundation, the Federal Government has conceded the case brought against it over Adani’s North Galilee Water Scheme.
"The Federal Environment Minister did not concede our client’s initial argument in the case, which was that the ‘water trigger’ should have applied to the Scheme. "

Us farkin Queenlanders getting it done, aye @Haakon !
So is that stopping the mine now or they need to jump through a couple more hoops to get it built?

Serious question. Not throwing shade at our window licking northern cousins
 

Flow-Rider

Burner
So is that stopping the mine now or they need to jump through a couple more hoops to get it built?

Serious question. Not throwing shade at our window licking northern cousins
For now it would have but it's hard to say what the future holds, the more difficult they make it for Adani the better.
 

hifiandmtb

Sphincter beanie

hifiandmtb

Sphincter beanie
If that lawsuit was pursued, greater good for all might result.

Whack a mole is stupid.

Check out all the Strayan gas projects:



Check out all the Strayan mining operations:



Lotsa coal, inc, developing sites...
 
Last edited:

Flow-Rider

Burner
If that lawsuit was pursued, greater good for all might result.

Whack a mole is stupid.

Check out all the Strayan gas projects:



Check out all the Strayan mining operations:



Lotsa coal, inc, developing sites...
Yeah' I've seen what happens first hand with fracking but it has been going on for years here.
 

rowdyflat

chez le médecin
Dumb fucks in Australia that want to extract everything from the ground before its too late and the world goes to shit.
Ha ha yeah LNP care about dumb queenslanders' jobs.
Adani or anyone else mining will bring in automation , driverless trucks and low paid overseas workers.
I dont think there will be many Australian jobs out of it.
 

John U

MTB Precision
In a huge win for our client the Australian Conservation Foundation, the Federal Government has conceded the case brought against it over Adani’s North Galilee Water Scheme.
"The Federal Environment Minister did not concede our client’s initial argument in the case, which was that the ‘water trigger’ should have applied to the Scheme. "

Us farkin Queenlanders getting it done, aye @Haakon !
Does this mean Adani don’t have free access to all the ground water they want?
 

pharmaboy

Eats Squid
MEPS needs to be widened across all industries and all products, not just the heavy hitters!
the irony of it is, that we are all ok to sit on our computers, in our air conditioned homes writing bullshit about its everybody else causing CC not me!
the world is fucked, yes we need to drastically reduce global consumption and pollution, but we also need to produce and manufacture mass amounts of equipment to combat climate change.
but this all come at a cost, you can't make solar panels out of butterfly farts, you need shitloads of coal based power to run those factories, and even more raw materials and chemicals dug up out of the ground to make stuff
we are currently too far away from the end goal to make a real impact
Existing solar panels and wind turbines plus a bunch of nuclear power plants and some hydro for wet mountains .

If that’s not enough, then someone has to figure out scrubbing that works - after all we may need the technology for the atmosphere down the track - given it will be pretty energy intensive, right next door to a big fuck off reactor would be handy
 
Top