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User not Registered |  New Message Posted!2005-09-01 22:34
I've just been touring around Exmoor in a dilapidated campervan and have been adding a little to the carbon emissions, but, my misdemeanours aside, I think I should report a new trend....
Tents that require electrical hookups!
I have seen this all over for the first time this year, my favourite blood boiling moment was seeing an electric fan heater in a tent.
We're doomed I tell you, doomed.
Templar
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| New Message Posted!2005-08-31 08:16
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On 2005-08-24 21:40, sem wrote:
You're not being synical by any chance.....are you?
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Cynical - moi? No not at all, just trying to liven up forum discussion. I do get a bit fed up when made to feel guilty about foreign travel though. Is a plane load of tourists rubber necking melting glaciers any more eco-damaging than a plane load of Japanese cameras flown to us from the other side of the world? How many of us don't own a Japanese camera? Should we feel guilty about that too? 
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AngieLake
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|  New Message Posted!2005-08-25 01:00
Bugger Alaska - let's all go visit the Isles of Scilly while we've got time! Always wanted to go there...
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sem
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| New Message Posted!2005-08-24 21:40
You're not being synical by any chance.....are you?
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Thorgrim
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| New Message Posted!2005-08-24 12:48
And people using fossil fuel or atomic energy or wind farms to generate electricity so that we can keep our computers working so that we can send silly emails to each other and look at websites that tell us where ancient sites are so that we can burn more fossil fuel in going to see them
But that's life and it's for living. We come into this world with nothing - we consume, but put back all that we take out. Then we leave with nothing. We are users but everything is recycled in the end. What is the alternative? Stay indoors and do nothing? No heating and no air conditioning, no travel and no consumerism?
The Earth can take care of itself. Global warming will reduce certain species of animals and plants eg sea birds whose food is vanishing because the water is now too warm. Ditto that most destructive of all animals - us. That's nature's way of restoring the balance. "Hard rain gonna fall"
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TimPrevett
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| New Message Posted!2005-08-24 12:45
Seems also part of the perverse human trait that causes folk to slow down on one side of the motorway to watch the scene of an accident on the other carriageway.
As the Asda stickers say "once it's gone, it's gone".
Tim
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|  New Message Posted!2005-08-24 09:10
It's the same as using air conditioning systems in silly constructed, green house like office buildings cooling down the global warmed air, which is caused by e.g. air conditioning systems! 
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| New Message Posted!2005-08-24 08:00
Is it just me or does anyone else find it a little odd, nay perverse, that disappearing glaciers have 'prompted a mini tourist boom, a "catch-it-while-you-can" attitude among visitors eager to see the glaciers while they are still there? This year, Alaska is set to beat the 1.45 million tourists of 2004.'
Now let me see, how do all these tourists get there and I wonder if there might be a link between tourism, and, um, global warming?
Visitors rush to glimpse vanishing glaciers
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