Cruise ships seem like a huge fucking waste.
They either run off Bunker C or Heavy Crude. All the supplies needed for a voyage. All the shitty cunts flying into and out of the departure and arrival ports.
Climate Change - so I'm starting to panic a bit
Posted by: Brocklanders
Trying to reduce my family's waste and carbon footprint as much as possible. Have to say the amount of plastic waste we produce is insane.....I'm glad it's all on the table now, but It's so disheartening to see when steps are taken for a more environmentally conscious reason some self centered group tries to sue or stop it. Like the plastic bag assn trying to sue Victoria or anti wind farm coalitions suing due to its an eyesore.
What if I sadly informed you that recycling and these efforts are generally just a Nothern thing? At least from what I've seen locally living with different people that recycling and sorting anything is a completely foreign concept to a lot of people. I'd say 1-2 in 8 people recycle world wide.
Posted by: Endur-Bro
Cruise ships seem like a huge fucking waste.
They either run off Bunker C or Heavy Crude. All the supplies needed for a voyage. All the shitty cunts flying into and out of the departure and arrival ports.
Then start to think about where most of our consumer goods come from and how they get here. When you start to expand your thinking about what's impacting climate change suddenly the outcome becomes very grim. Our lifestyles need to completely change.
Posted by: syncro
Posted by: Endur-Bro
Cruise ships seem like a huge fucking waste.
They either run off Bunker C or Heavy Crude. All the supplies needed for a voyage. All the shitty cunts flying into and out of the departure and arrival ports.
Then start to think about where most of our consumer goods come from and how they get here. When you start to expand your thinking about what's impacting climate change suddenly the outcome becomes very grim. Our lifestyles need to completely change.
I mean yeah, but cruise ships are the easy target of excess above and beyond all of what you said.. to heck with them!
Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus
What if I sadly informed you that recycling and these efforts are generally just a Nothern thing? At least from what I've seen locally living with different people that recycling and sorting anything is a completely foreign concept to a lot of people. I'd say 1-2 in 8 people recycle world wide.
lol - I'd say maybe 1-2 in 80 or 800 recycle with any sort of regularity or volume.
Instead of recycling though we should be focused on reducing the amount waste we unnecessarily generate - single serving drinks and food items and excess packaging of all sorts. As a first step I'd like to see plastics banned from use in any sort of disposable format.
Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus
What if I sadly informed you that recycling and these efforts are generally just a Nothern thing? At least from what I've seen locally living with different people that recycling and sorting anything is a completely foreign concept to a lot of people. I'd say 1-2 in 8 people recycle world wide.
When China stopped accepting used plastic and paper last year, it completely disrupted the economics of recycling. Many cities in the US cancelled their recycling programs because they couldn't get rid of all the stuff they were collecting, or the cost to get rid of it became too high. It turns out the rest of the world doesn't want our garbage anymore.
Ironically, Catalyst Paper's recycling plant in Coquitlam shut down almost 10 years ago because China was buying up all the recycled paper at premium prices, and Catalyst couldn't compete.
On the positive side of things, three weeks ago, Britain's power grid ran for a week without using coal for the first time in over 100 years. Their goal is to be coal free by 2025. Some of that will be replaced by natural gas, but some by solar and wind power. Change can happen, but it is slow.
Reducing the amount of waste we create is the message I'm trying to pass on to my kids.
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even in germany most garbage gets burned, i stopped separating my garbage years ago
How about water guys? I still believe we need to start work on building up our capacities to store water. I think in the near future water in some places will be in short supply. I’ve supported site c for some time,not for hydro generation but for the water. And in my mind site c should not be the only one. I would not be surprised if in the future water will be a very valuable commodity.
Posted by: Sethimus
even in germany most garbage gets burned, i stopped separating my garbage years ago
We incinerate some of our garbage to. I remember a ways back when either Vancouver or Burnaby wanted to ramp up incinerating but I dont really know how that went. Anybody else know?
And what are the emissions like?
Posted by: FLATCH
Posted by: Sethimus
even in germany most garbage gets burned, i stopped separating my garbage years ago
We incinerate some of our garbage to. I remember a ways back when either Vancouver or Burnaby wanted to ramp up incinerating but I dont really know how that went. Anybody else know?
And what are the emissions like?
It was shot down. The irony is all the trucks running garbage up to the landfill in Cache Creek create much more pollution than what the new tech incinerator/generators produce.
Sweden has been importing garbage to keep theirs going.
https://www.trtworld.com/europe/swedish-recycling-so-successful-it-is-importing-rubbish-24491/amp
Wanna really bum yourself out, watch the Plastic Ocean doc on Netflix. It's brutal
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The problem with a lot of the predictions is that our climate is inherently unpredictable. We have been good at predicting the future as long as it follows a trajectory, but there are many different tipping points we can encounter, including our own behaviour that we cannot predict. We might already be experiencing it, or we might not. I think the best we can hope for is that we have not hit the tipping point but that warming coupled with a few anomalous years frighten the shit out of humanity so we act before it is too late.
As a backup plan, we should figure out where RM's bunker is located.
Posted by: PaulB
Reducing the amount of waste we create is the message I'm trying to pass on to my kids.
Idealistic. Put them in some MMA so they can "instill" a sense of care into those who don't :p
Consider what I posted about the 2L bottle and then realize things like this are happening all over Vancouver. Then consider most newcomer's to the City that arent Canadian probably dont give a shit about recycling and dont even realize the climate issue's because Vancouver's weather is just better than pretty much everywhere. Local affect?
What you posted about China was a) news to me and b) could explain the recent news video of the drone footage going over the massive garbage pile in Lost Angeles (and them rats have the Typhus).
Our current delivery systems and manufacturing need to change to a more local or balanced geo-centric idea (east and west side mfgr/distro). Why am I buying a new hard plastic container for my laundry detergent pods instead of just re-filling that same container via a bulk system (sure, they'd spill/break open) or going back to the much lighter bag (sure, kids would eat 'em again and die). Why does Tim Horton's ship donuts across the country in a truck? Then we could get into stupid things Canada does like export raw reimport finished (trans-oceanic shipping because why?) or sell hydro cheap then buy back at inflated prices. But then we have to pay more as profits go down. So it's a lot more than just delivery systems. It's business models. Government reg's. Stocks. Futures and speculation of everything. And of course, human greed and purposeful ignorance.
This might be an extreme statement but (the majority of) people wont care let alone pay attention unless some sort of example was made of certain business's and people. And that example would have to be accepted by either a Country and or then the World. I can again sadly say that simply wont happen unless some crazy shit went down. Like crazy Georgia Guidestone type stuff.
Posted by: Brocklanders
Wanna really bum yourself out, watch the Plastic Ocean doc on Netflix. It's brutal
I thought some young kid from Baltimore worked out a prototype reeler vessel that'd convert the majority of gyre's contents into plastic rope? Or someone and something had that a while ago. Possible better solution would be to retrofit any oil rigs the vicinity and just have them pull the gyre's in and process it as a site.
Found something close to it. This isnt quite what I remember but it'll do:
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Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus
. I'd say 1-2 in 8 people recycle world wide.
I'd say your math is fucked up! Are you just naive?
How about water guys?
I'll tell you about water. When push comes to shove Nestle will just invade and take it.
Next question.
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So if I'm reading that link right, thats 7.25 billion tonnes of plastic. Would the sea levels go down one iota if it was all removed?
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