I’m no psychiatrist and I can only guess that there is some deep compulsion on the part of humans to be seen to be ‘good’. Some conscience attached to the good life, principally in the West, that makes them enthusiastically grab and wear a hair shirt, thus redeeming – at least in part, their feelings of guilt.

Duhh! Humans wanting to be good eh? What are we like! Isn’t that a good thing? Better than being “evil” I would suggest. :diablo:

If they were going to take her £30, I was keen for the council to spend some of it on some research

What you wanted to do was ensure that money used on some fruitless exercise. You said yourself that the appeal failed – therefore pointless.

People park illegally all the time thinking they’ll get away with it. Kind of why traffic wardens exist I guess.

Deforestation, the 1930s dustbowl, nuclear weapons, acid rain, holes in ozone layers, lake and river pollution, smog etc. etc. are just a few examples of humans causing great environmental effects.

As I posted before and as you studiously chose to ignore, these are things humans have already done. Nothing to do with the IPCC at all.

The light has eventually dawned on industry that we cannot keep polluting the planet the way we have been doing in an effort to stop what has previously happened – see above list for a sample. Clean air acts, unleaded petrol, CFC emissions, all without the aid of the IPCC.

Burying your head in the sand and hoping that the planet will somehow save itself is to ignore the real danger of failing to try and reverse the damage humans have already done.

Deforestation, the 1930s dustbowl, nuclear weapons, acid rain, holes in ozone layers, lake and river pollution, smog etc. etc. are just a few examples of humans causing great environmental effects. These are things that have actually happened and are very from being figments of anyone’s imagination. Who knows what else we might be capable of achieving in the future.

Recycling has little to do with climate change and everything into not turning the country into a massive landfill. It is therefore a good thing to do.

Personally, I’m going to do what I can to make sure there is decent environment for my daughter to live in. Thankfully I am not alone. (except perhaps on this forum).

The human race is capable of causing great damage to the Earth’s eco-system. The planet as a lump of rock might survive but any life on it will be in jeopardy – what a great legacy for the human race.

Mmmm… Not sure the dodo polluted the air and sea to the extent that we do. The dodo didn’t fill acres and acres with landfill rubbish and cut down hundreds square miles of rain forest. What was responsible for the demise of the dodo? Oh that’s right! Humans!

Nice one TonyT – for a minute I thought you were being serious about it not being your problem…you weren’t were you?

Our council have put in place an excellent system of recycling. Paper, plastic, glass, tins, cardboard goes in one recycle bin, garden rubbish in a second and everything else in another.
The recycle bin goes off to a facility where it is sorted and reclaimed.
Our non-recyling bin is barely used at all now.
The less that goes to wasteful landfill, the better.

With petrol at £6 a gallon I admire your single-handed efforts to reduce the national debt. I shall smirk with self-satisfaction as I drive past yet another filling station while achieving 50+mpg from a 200bhp engine :p

A question as an aside.
Why is it that “saving the planet” is associated with derision?
Surely we should ALL be doing our bit to save the planet?