Feel Better:Complain About Anything

Originally posted by Taurisk ↑

Hi Justis, bunbun
I don't want to post on climate change, this here is simply a chit-chat, complaining kind of thread - and a friendly one.
Just to show you what is possible when holding different opinions:

I have a good friend and his opinions and mine differ on many aspects - even in my home country I would have voted differently from him and his wife. He is here now, is good company, and when there is an important news item, I simply listen to how he interprets it and do not argue my point. By bitter experience I have learnt, it is better to listen to everyone's point of view.

On climate change - being European, he is totally anti young Greta' - lots of nasty jokes posted about her in newspapers etc. - oldie stuff like 'when we were young, we walked to school' blablablah - But his argument is that human beings by their very existence and numbers - having trebled from the 1950s cause carbon emissions (2 1/2 billion to now 7 1/2 billion)

Every human emits 1 tonne of Co2 just by breathing, let alone other activities.

Why, even constant posting over the internet is environmentally damaging, especially when I look at some of the stuff which does the rounds - totally useless homilies urging to you to forward or else - politically motivated long spiels from the far right in the U.s.A. years old and refurbished and sent off again at the slightest opportunity in order to raise more hackles . . . .

I have this morning - after my gardening stint - watched a segment on the battle people in India are having with wild elephants. The elephants want to go along their old paths - but humans have built rice and tea fields in what was formerly the wild elephants' domain, i.e. jungle. So there is conflict.

We are encroaching on nature in a big way - losing forests and turning it into grazing lands isn't a good thing.

Alternative energies will win the day - I believe the carbon credit thing Labor tried to bring in, isn't a bad thing, once the capitalists and gamblers get the hang of that one, we're off and running IMO. I used to think atomic power was the future - and imagined a world in which atomic power stations were quietly chugging way giving us huge amounts of electricity; Japan has put the kibosh on that one.

I will give your post detailed consideration, Justis - need to get ready to meet a friend for arvo tea, or rather coffee.
Taurisk

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But of couse you would give Justis consideration If you had read what I wrote you would understand where I am coming from but clearly this little group will stick by each other so I will take my leave.