[Surferdude]

A good analysis, ibi.
A point to add. Cotton growth is actually VERY ungreen. Lots of water and poisons are used.

[Doggie 1]

I reckon we do a lot of things to 'be safe just in case'. So even if you don't believe there is a problem, what does it hurt to reduce emissions. Worst case your just making our little planet a nicer place to live.....

What does it hurt?!!
It costs a lot of money and if the pollies get their way, it will cost us (the tax payer) a hell of a lot more.
And what we do will not make one iota of a difference.

I spent to much time reading ibrokeit's posts when I could have been planting trees

[Doggie 1]

 

[Phil №❶]

The plastic outer liner of the original disposable nappies made 20 years ago was not biodegradable and will contaminate the Earth for approximately 250k years. Thankfully through education and design improvements, all components are biodegradable.  Recycling and reprocessing of existing materials is the way of the future, as it minimizes demand for diminishing resources. Cost will always be a factor but  as the resources diminish and costs increase, recycling will become less expensive in the long run.

[ibrokeit]

I spent to much time reading ibrokeit's posts when I could have been planting trees

 

[Lakes]

The head scientist was saying a decade back that Sydney would be out of water by 2014, so spent billions $ on desalination plants in every city except Darwin. Well it is 2016 all the east coast of Australia has plenty of water Sydney's desalination plant standing there like a ghost town. Only two city's in Australia are useing or have used there desalination plants, but at a cost of $1m a day. So keeping sea level well down I would expect? This is only Australia what other country's pump sea water into desalination plants?

[Phil №❶]

Middle East uses that system, I believe.

[Lakes]

So does the world need to police the useing of sea water in dry country's to stop lowering sea levels?

[mik3yy]

Oh and if you don't think you can recycle disposable nappies.... think again.   Actually not just nappies, other disposable hygiene products (which they call Absorbent Hygiene Products) as well...

Knowaste.com - Knowaste in Action - the issue has been however, the cost of doing it (resources used) and return from recycled product sold, compared to the cost the usual disposal methods for the region.  Seems the costs for the usual methods are increasing significantly in the UK and so it is becoming quite viable.   There is also the advantage that the supply isn't really 'seasonal' - it doesn't increase/decrease or change materials through out the year.


Of course one thing that gets me where I live - you can't recycle plastic bags through the rubbish collection (they need to go into general rubbish) where as in my much smaller home-city you can.  Though it is requested that you bundle them together - apparently someone came up with a way to recycle them into plastic posts or similar and the process can stand a reasonable amount of 'contamination' (e.g. receipts left in bags).

That knowaste link is a good read, but sometimes, doing things is not pretty easy as it's been said
There are also lots of same videos that are pretty interesting, I just hope that there are more recycling methods to come.

[Paolo5]

The Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle puts it all in perspective for me...

"Most experts believe that extreme weather events are due to man-made global warming, although the prevailing opinion in the U.S. is that it's God showing his anger at the lies spread by climate scientists" 

[Dazzler]

  I can believe they would think that!