wil
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Post by wil on Sept 24, 2021 16:57:10 GMT
WITH EVERYONE GIVING THEIR REASON ON GLOBAL WARMING AND IN THE MAIN
BLAMINGEVERY ONE BUT THEM SELVES MAY I PUT FORWARD A FEW POINTS.
HAS ANYONE LOOKED AT WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR OWN SOLAR SYSEM.
IT IS AGREED THAT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN SUCH A TUMOIL OUT THERE AS
THERE IS NOW, NOT FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS .
ALSO IF YOU TAKE THE OLD TESTERMENT OF THE BIBLE, NOT IN ITS RELIGOUS
ASPECT BUT AS A HISTORY ACCOUNT.
THEN YOU WILL FIND STORIES OF GOD SENDING GREAT FLOODS AND FIRE DOWN
IN PUNISHMENT TO THE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE GREATER
THAN GOD.
IN THE WESTERN WORLD YOU HAVE THE STORY OF THE GREAT MANITOU SENDING
GREAT BOLTS OF LIGHTNING AND FLOODS AND DROWNING ALL OF THE PEOPLE
BECAUSE THEY HAD CLAIMED THEY WERE MORE POWERFUL THAN HIM.
THE FAR EASTERN WORLD HAVE A SIMILAR STORY.
AS DO THE ABORIGINEES
WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT IF WE COLLIDED WITH SOMETHING AS BIG AS US
THERE WOULD BE GREAT TURMOIL AND EVERYTHING WOULD HAVE TO START AGAIN
I BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED MANY MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO.
FAR FETCHED OR WHAT
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David
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Post by David on Sept 27, 2021 9:27:36 GMT
Hi John,
An interesting concept, that many scientist are still stumped by - and can not answer fully at this time.
Little research has been done into why people make apocalyptic predictions: Historically, it has been done for reasons such as diverting attention from actual crises like poverty and war, pushing political agendas, and promoting hatred of certain groups;
Thankfully, no conspiracy theories or predictions about how and when the world would end have proven true so far: though many have caught our attention worldwide.
But many people still find doomsday predictions intriguing, even if they don't really believe that a hidden alien planet is going to crash into Earth and herald the apocalypse.
Every year, nearly 100,000 people perish in natural disasters — earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, wildfires and droughts — while over 150 million are impacted by them, worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
Violent natural disasters have been a fact of human life since the beginning of mankind, but the death counts of the most ancient of these disasters are lost to history. Just think of all the producers and actors who would be out of work, if they could not feed on our anxiety's. And those wishing to go to Mars.
I will stick to eating my Mars bar on my allotment , dreaming up ways on how how to exterminate those alien aphids next year on my plot.
Regards
David
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David
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Post by David on Sept 27, 2021 9:47:26 GMT
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wil
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Post by wil on Nov 2, 2021 14:09:45 GMT
DAVID
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED YOUR MARS BAR.
I Was one of the PEOPLE WHO STOPPED EATING THEM A LONG TIME AGO WHEN I
FOUND OUT THAT SOME OF THE CONSTITUANTS IN THEM WERE OBTAINED IN NOT
TOO GOOD CONDITIONS FOR THE WORKERS.
ASFOR THE OTHER AS YOU CAN SEE ITS NOT A PREDICTION BUT IT HAPPENED
WE SHOULD BE COMING TOGETHER ON IS WHY IT HAPPENED.
WAS IT MAN MADE OR WAS IT COMPLETELY BEYOND CONTROL AND WAS IT OUR
OWN SOLAR SYSTM JUST CHANGING,
RESEARCH HAS NOW FOUND.
1 WE ARE NEARER THE SUN THAN AT ANY TIME IN THE EARTHS KNOWN HISTORY
2.THERE WAS LIFE OF SOME KIND BEFORE THE DINASAURS.
3.CARBON IN THE AIR WAS AT A GREATER HEIGHT TWENTY MILLION YEARS AGO
THAN IT IS NOW.
4.THERE IS AT THIS TIME GREAT TURMOIL INOUR SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM AT THE
WHY.
YOU AND I ARE ON THE SAME PATH AT THE MOMENT IN AS MUCH AS WE AGREE
THAT WE MUST DO OUR BIT TO CLEAN UP THE PLANET WHAT WE DISAGREE ON
IS THE WAY TO DO IT
ALL THE BEST
JOHN
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David
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Post by David on Nov 3, 2021 2:26:58 GMT
Hi John – YES we can agree on some things – and its good to raise the bar higher (I miss our chats)
Local -V-Global action crisis (Climate) I have worked on interrelated issues of safety, climate, biodiversity reduction all my professional life, so this is very close to my heart.
1. COP 26 (‘Conference of the Parties’ of the UN Climate Change Convention) hosted by the UK in Glasgow, and on nature (Up here right now as we talk to each other)
2. COP 15 of the UN Biodiversity Convention. But why do they matter and how do they relate to us here in Haywards Heath?
The climate change challenge
• The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows this is happening even faster than predicted.
• Climate change is a threat to our lives and wellbeing, from stronger hurricanes and massive floods to more intense heatwaves and impacts on what we grow and food security.
• The IPCC advises that at least a 45% cut in global greenhouse emissions is required between 2010 and 2030 to keep global warming below 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, but existing national commitments would only achieve a 0.5% decrease over that timescale – and I even challenge those figures are really that accurate.
• COP 26 will be the most important global climate summit since the Paris agreement (I presented at that one as well) as it is where all countries are expected to increase their ambitions to breach this gap between what has been promised and what is needed, and to commit the financing needed to help lower income countries meet their emissions reductions targets (I should have brought my air & gas meter with me – as there is more hot air being said in here that will raise it even higher)
• The UK government has just published its Net Zero Strategy and stakeholders will be reviewing this carefully to see whether it is ambitious enough as well as realistic, and that it does not put the burden of paying for changes on those least able to afford them.
The biodiversity challenge - Nature is also in crisis: During the pandemic we all saw the value of nature to our physical and mental health.
• But man-made pressures are causing unprecedented rates of deforestation, loss of wetlands, pollution to rivers and seas and mass species extinctions.
• The Biodiversity summit will agree a new set of global targets for biodiversity.
• These are critically needed in the UK where we have failed in all but four of twenty previous targets, on things like ensuring our rivers and seas are clean, on the amount of land available for wildlife etc.
• Biodiversity and climate change are inextricably linked.
• Climate change can degrade ecosystems and affect where species can live, feed and whether they survive, whilst deforestation and degradation of wetlands and peatlands releases carbon and makes climate change worse.
• The combined impacts of climate change and biodiversity significantly impact health, wellbeing and survival of people around the world but, most severely, the world’s poor.
But there is hope!
• Nature-based solutions can bring the win-wins we so desperately need –(saving our little water stream on the allotment from running away down the plug hole and flooding America Lane) mass tree planting will help mitigate climate change, wetlands help reduce threats from flooding and green spaces help cool our towns and cities.
• Addressing all this is a huge challenge whilst the world still faces impacts of COVID-19, but it is possible, and we must act now to avoid global catastrophe.
So how can we act locally?
• A third of carbon emissions are generated locally through transport, housing and waste, and as we ramp up action to address climate change, local authorities and communities will be on the front line.
• Sustainable housing and transport, mass retrofitting of homes, plastic reduction, recycling and waste, and nature protection must all be delivered. 90% of local councils across the country have declared climate emergencies but need the regulatory powers and access to funding to put these words into action at speed.
• These two global summits are crucial to us and our children and to people and nature all over the world.
• So now is the time to stand up and urge governments to act.
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