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Author: SBSB Date: Aug 13, 2007 15:58
Johann Hari: We should all be at Heathrow protesting
It is collective pressure on government, not consumer choices, that
the world needs now
Published: 13 August 2007
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/johann_hari/article2859059.ece
This week, two thousand people will gather at London's Heathrow
airport with tents and sleeping bags - not to EasyJet to the beach,
but to alert their fellow citizens to the Weather of Mass Destruction
we are unleashing.
If you need to know why this is necessary, take a look at the world
the deniers are so glibly averting their eyes from. The two countries
doomed to drown by global warming in my lifetime have already begun to
disappear beneath the waves. Almost half of Bangladesh is under water
as you read this, following monsoons four times more ferocious than
they should be. Ten million people are now homeless in the region. In
the Maldives, a series of massive swell waves stretching to 4.5 metres
drowned 68 islands this spring. The residents know the waves are
getting bigger every year, and soon they will swallow their homes
forever.
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Author: James FarrarJames Farrar Date: Aug 13, 2007 16:26
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:58:53 -0700, SB yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Johann Hari: We should all be at Heathrow protesting
I think he should stop producing carbon dioxide (and water) from
oxygen and glucose. The number of units on the planet that perform
this environmentally-damaging process is now over seven billion and
out of control.
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Date: Aug 13, 2007 17:14
> Leila, a London admin assistant helping to prepare the camp, said this
> weekend: "I've been suckered by a load of old bollocks and I need to save
> my conscience. Pass the champers wil you darling? Brr a bit chilly isn't
> it? Turn up the patio heater."
I did, fairly nauseating sight of middle-class hypocritical angst.
> How will you explain it to the drowned people of Bangladesh - and the
> North of England - if you don't?
"Fuck off and live somewhere less pikey."
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Date: Aug 13, 2007 18:06
> This week, two thousand people will gather at London's Heathrow
> airport with tents and sleeping bags - not to EasyJet to the beach,
> but to alert their fellow citizens to the Weather of Mass Destruction
> we are unleashing.
>
> If you need to know why this is necessary, take a look at the world
> the deniers are so glibly averting their eyes from.
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Author: Mark GoodgeMark Goodge Date: Aug 13, 2007 23:24
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:58:53 -0700, SB put finger to keyboard and
typed:
>Johann Hari: We should all be at Heathrow protesting
Ah, Johann Hari. The man who is so reliably wrong about everything he
writes about, that if he said it was sunny outside you know for
certain to take your umbrella.
Mark
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Author: tim.....tim..... Date: Aug 14, 2007 00:15
"nightjar . uk.com>" wrote in message
news:28Wdnbw3E5KMnVzbnZ2dnUVZ8tSdnZ2d@giganews.com...>
...
>> Look at the figures. Flying currently accounts for nearly 20 percent
>> of Britain's impact on global warming - and unlike the other factors,
>> it is growing rapidly.
>
> Who quantified Britain's contribution to global warming? The IPCC report
> could not come up with anything more positive that the opinion that it was
> likely that there human activities were involved in warmer days and nights
> and that it was more likely than not that they was involved in other
> climate change effects. However, it also stated that the extent to which
> human activities affected the climate change was unknown. If you mean the
> levels of CO2 generated, that is 20%%...
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Author: DougDoug Date: Aug 14, 2007 00:37
On 14 Aug, 01:14, %%ste...@ malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: >> Leila, a London admin assistant helping to prepare the camp, said this
>> weekend: "I've been suckered by a load of old bollocks and I need to save
>> my conscience. Pass the champers wil you darling? Brr a bit chilly isn't
>> it? Turn up the patio heater."
>> To find out how to join her, go towww.climatecamp.org.uk. >
> I did, fairly nauseating sight of middle-class hypocritical angst.
>
Well, as an arch polluter yourself, you would say that wouldn't you.
>
>> How will you explain it to the drowned people of Bangladesh - and the
>> North of England - if you don't?
>
> "Fuck off and live somewhere less pikey."
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Author: BrimstoneBrimstone Date: Aug 14, 2007 00:41
Doug wrote:
> On 14 Aug, 01:14, %%ste...@ malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: >> SB yahoo.co.uk> wrote:>>> Leila, a London admin assistant helping to prepare the camp, said
>>> this weekend: "I've been suckered by a load of old bollocks and I
>>> need to save my conscience. Pass the champers wil you darling? Brr
>>> a bit chilly isn't it? Turn up the patio heater."
>>> To find out how to join her, go towww.climatecamp.org.uk. >>
>> I did, fairly nauseating sight of middle-class hypocritical angst.
>>
> Well, as an arch polluter yourself, you would say that wouldn't you.
>>
>>> How will you explain it to the drowned people of Bangladesh - and
>>> the North of England - if you don't?
>>
>> "Fuck off and live somewhere less pikey."
>
> Get back to your 4x4 Filth and carry on polluting so that others might
> die. ...
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Author: DougDoug Date: Aug 14, 2007 00:52
On 14 Aug, 08:41, "Brimstone" hotmail.com> wrote:> Doug wrote:
>> On 14 Aug, 01:14, %%ste...@ malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: >>> SB yahoo.co.uk> wrote:>>>> Leila, a London admin assistant helping to prepare the camp, said
>>>> this weekend: "I've been suckered by a load of old bollocks and I
>>>> need to save my conscience. Pass the champers wil you darling? Brr
>>>> a bit chilly isn't it? Turn up the patio heater."
>>>> To find out how to join her, go towww.climatecamp.org.uk. >
>>> I did, fairly nauseating sight of middle-class hypocritical angst.
>
>> Well, as an arch polluter yourself, you would say that wouldn't you.
>
>>>> How will you explain it to the drowned people of Bangladesh - and
>>>> the North of England - if you don't?
>
>>> "Fuck off and live somewhere less pikey."
>
>> Get back to your 4x4 Filth and carry on polluting so that others might ...
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Date: Aug 14, 2007 00:55
>
> "nightjar . uk.com>" wrote in message
> news:28Wdnbw3E5KMnVzbnZ2dnUVZ8tSdnZ2d@giganews.com...>>
> ...
>>> Look at the figures. Flying currently accounts for nearly 20 percent
>>> of Britain's impact on global warming - and unlike the other factors,
>>> it is growing rapidly.
>>
>> Who quantified Britain's contribution to global warming? The IPCC report
>> could not come up with anything more positive that the opinion that it
>> was likely that there human activities were involved in warmer days and
>> nights and that it was more likely than not that they was involved in
>> other climate change effects. However, it also stated that the extent to
>> which human activities affected the climate change was unknown. If you
>> mean the levels of CO2 generated, that is 20%% of 2%% - 0.4%% of the world
>> output, but you will not get any scientific concensus on whether rising
>> levels of CO2 are a cause or an effect of rising temperatures. ...
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