Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Rhodes \u0026 Corfu show we must stop ignoring the climate emergency." video.

  1. He's a "ranter" worthy of the reputation of some of those English Civil War ones! 😄👍
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  2. I wonder all the time whether there isn't a lot of truth in this position... I am so undecided.
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  3. The UK needs to get back its food security!!
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  4. ​ @LittleCarol I am! 🙂
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  5. ​@jonathanlake6053 Let me tell you something though: In Cornwall, the only fields (practically) I've seen swathes of solar panels on, are on steep hillsides covered with gorse bushes, or otherwise pretty unproductive land. The onshore wind farms (in Cornwall consisting of 1-2 - about 9 big turbines) are always in fields full of sheep and the like. So what's the problem?
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  6. But it should be the rich who pay for it!
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  7. Yes. That IS a novel idea. Obviously very novel to the likes of Sadiq Khan.. 😏
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  8. Also: luckily it's been raining in the UK for weeks: so Cornwall's not likely to catch on fire! Neither is the rest of the South-West. 🙂🙂
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  9. Is it only on BBC iplayer? I don't watch BBC as I don't have a license.
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  10. And we're supposed to believe that.. 😏
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  11. Why would "wholefoods" make a difference anyway though? (I hate brown rice. It takes ages to cook. And some other posters say that India is keeping most of its rice for itself now anyway...)
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  12. Yes, there is a climate emergency. But I'm going to tell you frankly what I think, Damo: Which is that our technology and economy is not yet at the stage of tackling it properly! Take electric cars. Which are supposed to be one of the ways the planet is going to save itself. (There are plenty if YouTube videos contradicting this idea, however. 😏) These highly expensive vehicles, even when bought reconditioned (which are however supposed to get their drivers relief from road tax, ULEZ and a ton of other crap) use inefficient batteries, which are not at all suitable for longer journeys. I have looked into getting an electric vehicle myself (only advantage I can see down here in Cornwall is if you could charge it up from solar panels, which I have likewise yet to get!!) But I've been told the batteries need replacing every four to five years; and they cost thousands to replace and.... 😏😏☹️👎 Plus: they are dependent on rare earth minerals, such as cobalt. Which are only to be found in a few places in the world. I read that some cobalt, along with some lithium and even rarer elements, is even to be found in our county of Cornwall! (Making it more worthwhile to start mining the tin again. 😏 Ive seen plenty of articles GASSING about firms re-starting deep mining in Cornwall: but I haven't bleddy seen them DOING it! Why not?!) And so one of the sources of current cobalt mining is in fact Australia, I have read: but the cheapest and the most plentiful is the so-called (ha ha 😏) Democratic Republic Of Congo, where it is scratched out of the hillsides, largely by child miners! Apparently all of the world's corporations are complicit in this, as you can watch on YouTube. How is that good for ANYTHING?? 😏 THEN there is the crappy so-called "congestion charge". I must say, whatever the Green Party think of it, I do think that the vast majority of voters are HIGHLY SKEPTICAL of any new charges, which just press down on them as ordinary people. Along with the cost of living crisis and the mortgage crisis - you think that people in the UK or Outer London want to pay yet another fee or charge? I don't: and I do think that's why Labour failed to win Uxbridge. Voters were obviously fed up of Sadiq Khan's policies more than they were of the Tories. 😏 £12.50 a day?? (Also in an urban area, where public transport doesn't work very well, at getting you from outer area of London to outer area: because the transport system, especially tube and trains, is arranged like the spokes of a bicycle wheel all leading into the centre: not connecting up the outer areas! As I very well know from living there years ago! 😏) No, this has been very poorly thought out. And what about businesses? This would put up their charges. What about delivery drivers for Amazon and other firms? Scientists are right now working on pioneering new battery technology. Give them another few years. Then push to roll out electric vehicles. It's still premature to do so. There. That's my piece Damo. 😏 Signed, Liz K.
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  13. Really?? Let's hope so. Let's hope it provides jobs, for some people other than the Chinese, too! 🤞
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  14. Trying to locate the podcast on my podcast app. Is it the one entitled Greece Is Burning??
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  15. ​@SlowhandGreg Yes, maybe they will. Once the scientists have completed their battery revolution; and have developed efficient batteries for electric vehicles. It's far from there yet. 😏
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