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There is currently a tv programme on about people on the street and trying to encourage them to fly less.
I was just wondering what you thought can happen to help this out?
I think it is not up to the average person on the street to fly less. I think it is up to the companies with the money to find out a less damaging way to fly.
I find it annoying that they are telling people to cut down on how they want to live their lives and not calling for billionaire companies to find a solution.
Never been on a plane before. Never left Arizona either. I left Phoenix once to go to Flagstaff about a year ago with my friend. First and last time I ever saw snow. Maybe they ought make vacations cheaper. :)
If the government would decriminalize industrial hemp (like they did in North Dakota), then we could have hemp derived fuel that is easier and quicker to grow, manufacture, and cleaner to burn than fossil fuels. . .read "The Emperor Wears no Clothes". . .it'll make all these debates seem silly with such a quick and easy answer.
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They should, but a lot of people would start using it as a way to fly high themselves. LOL
1)Industrial hemp does not contain enough THC to get a person high (you'd die of smoke inhalation before you got high)
2)Even if it did. . .so what?
Oh, I stand corrected. :) Then why is it criminalized? Just curious.
Industrial hemp is used for its threads and other industrial uses, which is why it is industrial:P.
Oh, I stand corrected. :) Then why is it criminalized? Just curious.
It's illegal because it still contains THC, the psychoactive substance in cannabis plants that gets you high. However, in industrial hemp, the THC levels are not enough to get you high and as That Ball Guy said, you will die of smoke inhalation before you will get high off of industial hemp=).
-Mihnea
And how does this relate to hair?
umm,pollution is bad for the hair?
LOL
Polar bears are hairy!
Oil energy is one of the most profitable businesses in the world and they (oil companies) do not want to jeoprodize the profits. They don't care about pollution, just money.
Maybe there should have been an "OT" with that subject line.
BTW, about "global warming", remember in the '80's when all the scientists were worried about the coming Ice Age? It's cyclical. World temps go up and down over time. Any change that makes a difference takes millenia. All the hype is by those who stand to profit or get elected. Create a wave of popular opinion and ride it to the capital or the bank.
Take it all with a HUGE grain of salt.
The real problem is not global warming anyway, it is global procreation. There are simply too many of us here.
Overpopulation is not only causing global warming, it is also causing excessive pollution of every kind and shortages which have diminished the quality of life for us all. We now see a dog eat dog world compared to what we saw 50 years ago, and this competitiveness is due to overcrowding. One income could support a family 50 years ago, and now that's tough to do with two. We've gone from 3 to 6 billion people in that time. I don't envy the younger guys on this board at all - fighting for the best grades, fighting to pay for college. Life isn't going to be much fun if it's all spent fighting.
If the politicians of the world would confront overpopulation, global warming and many worse problems would all be solved together. Overpopulation is the underlying cause of many of our ills.
Oh, this is all on topic - the warmer it gets, the less people want to have long hair, and THAT concerns me! [grin]
Bill
What could be done about overpopulation? kill those who are "unworthy"? Birth rate in developed countries is really low these days but those in developing countries are breeding like rabbits... so maybe things should be done there?
carbon based emissions from flying is negligible on the global scale. to really tackle this problem, we need cleaner alternatives to coal power generation plants, esp. in china. also, to create practical air travel without combustion is beyond our current technology and not flying isn't an option for many people. besides, even if people do decide to seek out alternative, non-combustion based transportation, the source of power for that mode of transportation usually is combustion based, and if not, it's usually damaging to the environment in another way.
i think that carbon based emissions are defiantly a problem, but there are far better ways to approach a solution than trying to deal with air travel.
-bums
Here in little England this sublect has been a massive topic in the news. When I watch the stories I get the feeling its the media (the land of pointless speculation and half truths) milking the most they can out of a story and they dont really care that they are pointing the finger at just the airlines rather than the numerous 4.5 V8 powered "single figure per gallon" chelsea trackters and other transports aswell. However I believe in England there are certain regulations on how much carbon emmission the transport industry can produce - somehow the airlines are not part of this and has been free to do whatever they want for years. The problem is (put me right if I'm wrong) that to comply to our governments figures they'll need to ground many of there services, which they wont be wanting. It's finding a balance between the money grabbers and the people who want green to go, I think that the aviation industry should be trying to find greener options, which they probably are. As for me, I feel like the scientists or the media are telling us any old crap just for a story's sake. There have been so many things that are supposed to have happened, that just havn't. We had proper snow for the first time in several years this year... thats global warming for you aint it lol!
Let's just kill all the short hairs. That will solve the overpopulation problem and cut down on greenhouse gases. BTW-just kidding!
TLH
Which is a good reason to promote vegetarianism :)
yeah, or at least to promote substituting beef for chicken more often as chickens produce a tiny fraction of the methane gas that cows do per unit of meat
-bums