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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: Doug
Date: Apr 2, 2007 00:48

On Apr 1, 9:45 pm, "Fod" googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 1 Apr, 08:03, "Doug" riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mar 30, 2:12 pm, Conor gmail.com> wrote:> In article <1175243366.113550.17...@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, Doug
>>> says...
>
>>>> You will have to show that your home consumption is less than mine,
>>>> which will be difficult.
>
>>> Which I've already done
>
>> Where?
>
>>>> yet you decided to ignore it
>
>> Liar! I vepublished my TOTAL home consumtion several times in the
>> past.
>
> and when asked for some things to confirm what you said you suddenly
> went very quiet...
>
Liar!
>
> Yet you refute things other people say unless they can come up with a
> much higher burden of proof.
>
When are you going to give your total home consumption figures?
>
>> What about your heating? Give your total home energy consumption in
>> kWh over this recent three month winter period and I will do the same,
>> again.
>
> I'll gladly match lifetime totals with you Doug. I'll even agree to
> factor in Age should our ages be different.
> That how confident I am that despite my car use my lifetime impact is
> much less than yours.
>
> Lets start with ages; I'm 33; how old are you? Have you been
> polluting longer than me?
>
Don't try and sidestep your home consumption by moving the goal posts.
As there is no way of totalling a lifetime's energy consumption,
particularly as one person may live a lot longer than another, you are
chasing up a blind alley. Babies use the least energy because, apart
from anything else, they can't drive a car.
> Fod
>
> And while you are at it give your annual car mileage and fuel
>
>
>
>> consumption. Put up or shut up, hypocrite motorist!
>
>> Oh yes. How old are your computers and how do you dispose of your
>> computers, and the same goes for all the other blazing hypocrites in
>> this thread who tell me I should buy a new computer and dump my old
>> ones, especially 4x4er Steve Filth?
>
>> Quote SchNEWS 582, 30th March 2007.
>
>> "Is there such a thing as a 'fair trade' computer or iPod?
>> International attention has been focussed on the appalling labour
>> conditions required to produce our clothes and many brands now
>> boast their 'fair-trade' credentials. But the same scrutiny
>> doesn't apply to the many other types of manufactured goods which
>> are coming out of similarly dire sweatshops in east Asia.
>
>> Microsoft recently released its new 'operating system', Vista. It
>> will only run on the latest computers, prompting millions of
>> people to upgrade. This cycle of forced obsolescence caused by
>> 'new generations' of technology is the engine that drives the
>> consumer electronics industry. Environmentally the cost is huge
>> with large scale mineral extraction using toxic and resource-heavy
>> processes during production - for products which are on average
>> used for three years before becoming 'e-waste', filling holes in
>> the ground with lead, cadmium, copper, gold, chromium, tin, zinc,
>> antimony, coltan, plastics and more. The West then ships some 50
>> million tonnes of 'e-waste' to dump in China each year."
>
> never heard for linux?
>
What has that got to do with the hardware, hypocrite?

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