The green thing

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Hey Br. Colin,

Yep, With a pony........or Mustang........


Off topic: I came back from Copenhagen yesterday - Man, what rainfall there was the other day...SHEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSH - The rainwater gushed up from the toilet in the "dacha" my wife and I rented.......
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Cant be worse than the French systems. Stayed in quite a good hotel on the way down. Every time we ran the basin tap we got a strong smell of drains???????

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Cant be worse than the French systems. Stayed in quite a good hotel on the way down. Every time we ran the basin tap we got a strong smell of drains???????

teddy
That was froggy perfume .......
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
AFAIK, Danish systems don't have the same problems as French systems but the tremendous rainfall overwhelmed the system when we were there...
 

mmsbls

Sr. Regulator
Staff member
Sr. Regulator
I'm a bit new to this thread. and I have a somewhat different view of the OP. It is certainly true both that "they didn't have the green thing in her day" and that people used significantly less energy back them. But people were not strictly "greener". It is also true that air and water pollution were much worse and the consequences were awful. In my country (US) people who spent significant time outside wore gas masks in Los Angeles in the 1960s. In London the Great Smog of 1952 has been estimated to have killed between 4000 - 12000 (just in London) over the course of a few weeks. Cars in the 1960s ran on leaded gasoline, an insidious metal poison. The US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) was created because air pollution was so readily visible across the country and rivers were flammable (some were filmed burning due to pollutants). Our environment is significantly cleaner today than it was 4-5 decades ago.

People are no better or worse today than decades ago. Most people don't understand environmental issues and spend little to no time doing anything consciously about them. I am incredibly thankful that governments stepped in by doing research, setting up regulatory agencies, and passing regulations that have significantly cleaned up the environment. We clearly need even stronger regulations to increase energy efficiency, further reduce certain pollution, and contain greenhouse gas emissions. Without the present regulations our societies would be an environmental nightmare (much, much worse than the 1950s and 1960s).

The clerk may have been right to suggest environmentally friendly behavior, but she was way out of line to criticize a whole generation for their behavior.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Our environment is significantly cleaner today than it was 4-5 decades ago.

Well it would be if China wasn't building a new coal fired electricity generator every week.

It is unfortunate that we often do things without being aware of the long term consequences. What looks like a good idea today can be tomorrows disaster.

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
We export our South Island coal to China?? :banghead:
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Yeh, the greenies are against us using coal (we have enough to last us for something like 400-500 years and the latest clean burning technology) but they say NO so we send it to China, now ain't that goood logik
 
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