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Well according to Attenborough she's way further on than that.
Being aspergic she retains information better than the norm and she becomes very knowledgeable.
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Well according to Attenborough she's way further on than that.
Being aspergic she retains information better than the norm and she becomes very knowledgeable.
Soldato
Yup, all those nuclear power station, chemical plants and virus research facilities aren’t going to just shut down nicely and not fall apart without humans to maintain them.
And that’s before we get into all the various WDCs in the hands of the world’s military forces.
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Its all BS, most normal kids can remember things perfectly fine.
Global warming isnt a difficult concept, you learn about it pre GCSE.
Nuclear power stations are designed to shutdown gracefully unattended - in the longer term there might be issues with spent fuel, etc. most of those are going to produce very localised issues such as ground water contamination in the immediate area and have little if any global implications.
Man of Honour
In your opinion, I think she is a very clever girl from all the documentaries, reading material and witness accounts I've seen & heard.
Soldato
So called 'spent fuel rods' should be viewed as an opportunity rather then as a problem. In France they have shown you can recycle and extract most of the remaining uranium from those rods which one it's enriched can be used again in power plants. I can't find a source but someone did estimate there is enough energy in those spent fuel rods to power the Earth's current energy requirements for next 300/400 years.
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Parroting things adults have told you to isn't a sign of intelligence.
I also never stated she isn't intelligent, I stated that she is no different to any other Geography student with a passion for the subject.
This level of intelligence is the norm. Gretta simply got lucky and got noticed or knew the right people.
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She’s a youthful face to state the obvious.
We all know the impacts of using fossil fuels at the rate we do, but ultimately very few of us care because we are too caught up in our own problems - like earning a living.
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'Oh wow, a kid is passionately repeating things it has been taught, this is surely the next Einstein!'.
Also even if you try to care about these issues, everything we put in our green bins was being sent to Turkey to be incinerated instead of recycled. Whose fault exactly is that?
Most normal people are simply fed up with this. Every person that runs around complaining about global warming is doing absolutely nothing to help the situation improve.
In the process of bringing the UK / wests carbon emissions to zero, all we've simply done is shipped off all our waste elsewhere to be burned. Explain how this is fixing global warming and isn't making it worse?
Do you see Gretta or any such activist doing anything about how such waste is handled, or how much more pollution is coming from China / India / Brazil?
We were actually taught about the pollution levels of those countries during my Geography classes, basically rapid rising population with rapid industrialization = massive amounts of pollution. It seems like Gretta and other activists skipped this lesson entirely.
Focusing on the EU and UN alone isn't going to do anything to reduce global pollution.
Also even if you try to care about these issues, everything we put in our green bins was being sent to Turkey to be incinerated instead of recycled. Whose fault exactly is that?
Most normal people are simply fed up with this. Every person that runs around complaining about global warming is doing absolutely nothing to help the situation improve.
In the process of bringing the UK / wests carbon emissions to zero, all we've simply done is shipped off all our waste elsewhere to be burned. Explain how this is fixing global warming and isn't making it worse?
Do you see Gretta or any such activist doing anything about how such waste is handled, or how much more pollution is coming from China / India / Brazil?
We were actually taught about the pollution levels of those countries during my Geography classes, basically rapid rising population with rapid industrialization = massive amounts of pollution. It seems like Gretta and other activists skipped this lesson entirely.
Focusing on the EU and UN alone isn't going to do anything to reduce global pollution.
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Isn't it 70% corporations fault and largely China with their emissions so why isn't she over there giving them what for?
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Do you think they would listen?
Soldato
There are things that rest of us can all do, like not buying products that are wrapped in non-recyclable packaging, buying lose fruit and veg, shop in refill type stores etc. Sure compared to the big boys it's not much but every little helps.
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That's what Sellafield is for, from memory the Thorpe reprocessing facility amongst others. The UK is/was a World leader in reprocessed fuel, MOX chiefly. We did used to export MOX fuel to other countries, not sure anymore.
I'd like to see more molten salt reactors, it feels like an untapped technological avenue.
Man of Honour
Oh yeah, I'm the worst ever and don't do anything she says, I just think she's got her head screwed on and I admire what she's trying to do.
I don't even know what my 3 bins are for.
That's a shame. Maybe find out eh?
China are drastically reducing their emissions at the moment. They're certainly being more aggressive about it than some Western countries.
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??? arn't they building coal power stations ? "259 gigawatts of new capacity are under development in China" they thought about it .. then changed there mind ...
Thunberg joins German climate strikes before vote 'of a century' (msn.com)
"Tens of thousands of climate activists including Greta Thunberg began descending on German cities Friday to crank up the pressure on candidates competing to succeed Angela Merkel at this weekend's general election."
"Tens of thousands of climate activists including Greta Thunberg began descending on German cities Friday to crank up the pressure on candidates competing to succeed Angela Merkel at this weekend's general election."
Just as a side, Survivors got a damn good remake about 10 years ago but got **** canned after the second season, leaving a huge cliff-hanger, still ****** at the BBC about that.