When we are the unlucky ones with nature It's difficult to come to terms with it. I've seen this in my own family.

Best wishes going forward.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Conspiracy....

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How do you know?

Don't you think it's a little patronising to assume she is being 'used'? Sure she has backers, but maybe she convinced them, rather than vice versa?

I too was quite passionate about climate change (in a quiet way), or cutting down on waste etc. I still am with recycling because that’s definitely achievable and even if it doesn’t reverse ‘climate change’, it does save on landfill and damage to the environment and wildlife. But I can’t get my head round how ignorant a lot of teenagers and twenty something’s are when they just chuck their plastic bottle with cap on in a normal bin when the recycling one is either next to it or not far away. (And then there’s the question of what happens to the collected recycling. Hmmm. Where does it actually go? And why the supermarkets continue with black plastic trays is where the arrogance and ignorance accusations should also go, but they are separate issues)

The issues now differ to 20 years ago.

Chinese business.
India and Brazil’s growth. ‘Why should we not prosper as you have’

But also, are all the concerned youth going to cut down on their carbon footprint, give up their mobile phone, or have a second hand one for 10 years? Never go travelling? Not drive a car? Buy a couple of items of clothing per year rather than an amount of clothes that need 10,000 swimming pools worth of water to produce?

Stirling is right again. It’s either population or technology that needs to be reversed. The definite effect is that low lying countries will lose land. I’d rather do everything we can to hedge our bets on this but because of technology, population and emerging markets it’s not going to happen. But the least we can do is reduce plastic food packaging or make it more recyclable. That is inexcusable, including supermarkets that claim to be concerned by this or that.

COYP

Maybe you should do a bit of reading about her parents, family and backers.
She has been fed this stuff since birth.

Tell all that to the emerging markets and poor people around the world who are going to rely on this technological world to pull themselves up the ladder.

You saying ‘That if we could find a way of reducing population growth it would also help is also true‘ implies deep down you don’t think it’s possible. Controlling the worldwide population? Good luck.

COYP