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topic of the weekplease login to add to this item  It's getting hot in hereSaturday, 25 August 2007 "It's getting hot in here, let’s take off all our clothes". Mmm. Possibly not the most useful of thoughts on climate change, but you never know, it could catch on. Yes we're talking global warming. Long hot summers and a touch of the Med for Britain and melting icecaps for the Poles. You can't deny the latter is happening. The predicted heat wave may have passed us by this summer as life's been more flood watch than Bay, but whatever the elemental cause, is there a will to challenge the carbon footprints we make? We’re not so sure. Yes you can recycle those vodka bottles, queue for a view of Madonna's Live Earth or refuse life's excessive packaging but what real use is all of this? Bags for life feel like a drop in the often polluted ocean whilst China, India and other developing wannabe super nations continue to churn out their coal fired fumes. Yet to stand up and yell "tut tut" feels like a colonial contradiction. Do as I say not as I do comes to mind. We cherish our countryside but use the car to get there and those that embrace the organic ignore the fact that most of it is flown in from faraway fields. The whole environmental issue can feel so two faced at times - like the rumoured launch of a coke flavoured product with added vitamins - and we seem happy to live with these double standards. There's enough ice in our summer cider to save the ice caps but the fridges that chill them cause the problem in the first place. Can we have progress with a conscience? Do we even care? Going green is something many aspire to but few seem to achieve. How many people does it take to change to a low energy light bulb we wonder, and even if we do go green would the floods cease, the lost species come back from extinction or the rain-forests be saved? Can we ever go truly green, kill the carbon footprint and save the planet or is the joke on us? your comments said by Samwell There's no question that we're in trouble and that we've got to start putting the environment before profits.  said by onemorechris Big supermarkets have to pay to throw away rubbish when it can't be recycled... If I want a product that has packaging I can't recycle, I open the product in the shop and leave them the packaging. If enough people did this, maybe more packing would be fully recyclable.
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said by onemorechris
on Tuesday, 28 August 2007, 2:15pm
It's a difficult one... I try as much as possible to not be wastful. I dont have a car (but I do have a great big camera and two computers that spend a lot of time switched on or charging up!)
It's all well and good when you're trying to be good (or less bad) to the environment by getting the solar panels or energy saving lightblubs, but of course, these were all produced in a factory that I very much doubt is running on solar or wind energy, so it's give and take at the same time - and that's very frustrating.