Interestingly enough my boss about 25 years ago sat on some quango which commissioned a report into disposable vs cloth nappies and they apparently worked out about the same in environmental terms unless you had at least 3 children and even then it was a bit swings and roundabouts because of washing machine, water, detergent etc
The home is a good place to start the debate. I donât think itâs as simple as making anyone over 30 wear a hair shirt and pinning all hope on schoolchildren. The environment is also a relatively safe sandpit for the political class. Itâs a great source of taxation and often keeps attention away from other difficult matters. We are in it together 
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Perhaps the environment is like lent, good in principle if you can find anyone willing to give something up.
This nonsense goes some way in displaying the basic ignorance of children, and their parents alike. Neither have a clue how the climate works, or the basic realisation that it has existed for 4.5 billion years, and in that time has continued to do what it does, without the interference of human beings, and will continue to do so.
People who talk of a problem with âcarbonâ fail to realise that they, and the rest of us consist largely of carbon. Of course, they mean carbon dioxide, an essential life-promoting gas, with which we could do with more, rather than less. It doesnât cause warming - it is caused BY warming - thereâs at least an 800 year delay between the two.
All you folk who spout about the climate, and know relatively little, if anything, should think twice before joining the âeducatorsâ in their indoctrination of your children - and encouraging them to stay away from school is criminal - the academic levels being attained now are pretty dire already, donât make it worse.
Thatâs a well-know climate-change-deniers blog Chris - âaccommodating beliefs that are in opposition to the scientific consensus on climate change.â (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change)
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This though is an interesting take on the school strikes controversyâŚ
Ending Capitalism and replacing it with the highly successful _______________ system as demonstrated in _______________ (insert country). Feel free to fill in the gaps 
Yes that is a great big problem.
Alternatively learning a little more about the mechanisms of climate change would serve people well.
https://www.goesfoundation.com/
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You mean popular scientific blog, I think. One of many
Wikipedia, as most of us know, is (and has been) subjected to biased editing - a certain William Connelly springs readily to mind.
Anyone quoting Wiki⌠should bear in mind their disclaimer about the accuracy of the information on their pagesâŚ
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I just wonder if you have any answers to the questions Brian Milne asked you back in February 2013 when you last spouted and used the same links?
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Itâs a blog, but itâs not scientificâŚ
" Anthony Watts is a blogger, weathercaster and non-scientist, paid AGW denier (https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AGW_denier) who runs the website wattsupwiththat.com . He does not have a university qualification and has no climate credentials other than being a radio weather announcer. His website is parodied and debunked at the website http://wottsupwiththat.com. Watts is on the payroll of the Heartland Institute (https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute), which is funded by polluting industries."
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âSomeone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism . We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the worldâ
Fredric Jameson
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Hummmm thatâs nice. Doesnât really fill in the gaps thoughâŚ
Thatâs an easy one, Simon: any society in the whole history of humanity - except of course the capitalist system which emerged out of feudalism in Europe over the 15th-19th centuries, and more of the world only in the last 2 or 3 centuries - not long compared to many previous societies - and if you measure âsuccessâ by ability not to completely ruin the planet - then even in its short lifetime capitalism doesnât seem to be doing very well, does it?
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Sorry Geof - you lost me at 'Thatâs an easy oneâŚâ
Canât you just fill in the gaps instead?
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is it agrarian and Cambodia?
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Youâre getting warm (no pun intended!) DavidâŚkeep going⌠
democratic and Congo?
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