The Plastic Crisis/Environment Thread

In October 2024, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch declared herself a “net zero sceptic”, but “not a climate sceptic”. Most recently she doubled down, announcing plans to scrap the 2030 ban on new petrol cars in a 900-word Sunday Telegraph article that did not mention climate change once.

...public opinion on climate change, found 22% of people wrongly thought net zero meant “producing no carbon emissions at all”, a figure which rose to 41% among Reform supporters...

:hmmm: :whist:
 
Possibly the best place.

Yum yum...

Major restaurant chains, including KFC, have ditched a commitment to improve chicken sourcing standards in the UK as poultry demand soars.

Eight restaurant groups, which also include the owners of Burger King and Nando's, have left the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC), in which they pledged to stop using fast-growing chickens, for an industry-led plan without that commitment.
www.bbc.co.uk

KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge as demand soars

Wingstop, Burger King, and others have walked away from an industry commitment to avoid using fast-growing chickens
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I love injected and manipulated chicken.
 
mike_field said:
Possibly the best place.

Yum yum...

Major restaurant chains, including KFC, have ditched a commitment to improve chicken sourcing standards in the UK as poultry demand soars.

Eight restaurant groups, which also include the owners of Burger King and Nando's, have left the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC), in which they pledged to stop using fast-growing chickens, for an industry-led plan without that commitment.
www.bbc.co.uk

KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge as demand soars

Wingstop, Burger King, and others have walked away from an industry commitment to avoid using fast-growing chickens
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

I love injected and manipulated chicken.
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Fact, I have never eaten anything from KFC.
 
I wish evolution was allowed to focus on more important things.

Monkeys living on Gibraltar have learned that swallowing soil can quell upset stomachs caused by eating snacks offered or stolen from tourists, research suggests.

Food such as chocolate bars, crisps and ice cream have negative digestive effects for the macaques but are "as delicious for them" as they are for humans, according to a Cambridge University study.
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Cambridge study finds monkeys 'eat soil to cope with junk food'

Soil helps monkeys' stomachs settle after calorie-rich snacks from tourists, research suggests.
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The Fear said:
The world is on fire! This sounds like hell to me

www.theguardian.com

‘My head spins with the heat’: India’s gig workers battle exhaustion amid soaring temperatures

Cities across south and south-east Asia are becoming places where informal workers can no longer recover from the heat
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I work with Indians who go to work in 40+ degree heat, at least the offices have good aircon. I don't even know how there is a gig economy in that country.

A few summers ago when it hit close to 40 degrees in the UK I decided to go out in the mid day heat to sample it, I was out for 15 minutes and it wasn't good.
 
Pangloss said:
I work with Indians who go to work in 40+ degree heat, at least the offices have good aircon. I don't even know how there is a gig economy in that country.

A few summers ago when it hit close to 40 degrees in the UK I decided to go out in the mid day heat to sample it, I was out for 15 minutes and it wasn't good.
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And the tiny rooms they live in, sleep in, etc. Just exhausting. Some people really do have very hard lives.
 
The Fear said:
www.theguardian.com

UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds

Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics
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Whilst a cleaner production process is obviously too be welcomed this is the only reference to cost, and it is entirely ambiguous at best.
"The naysayers calling to dismantle climate action clearly don’t want what’s best for Britain or the millions of people struggling with the cost of living, otherwise they’d be pushing to reap these huge rewards."
We already have the highest commercial electricity cost in the developed world, and far from Millibands £300 off every household bill, the costs are going up and up as more subsidies are added too our bills to pay for it, the latest one being too pay for those that aren't paying their bills.
It has to be affordable or it's not good.
It's always jam tomorrow.
 
It's crucial that gains are seen in prices, otherwise people lose buy in, the grid needs to be improved and the prices decoupled, until then, it's not going to be felt by most people and not seen as a success. At the moment it is delivering for big business and not consumers.

There's something badly wrong in this country that electricity has been allowed to be so expensive for so long, this has negative impacts on consumers and industry. Sort it out.
 
Pangloss said:
It's crucial that gains are seen in prices, otherwise people lose buy in, the grid needs to be improved and the prices decoupled, until then, it's not going to be felt by most people and not seen as a success. At the moment it is delivering for big business and not consumers.

There's something badly wrong in this country that electricity has been allowed to be so expensive for so long, this has negative impacts on consumers and industry. Sort it out.
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And cost big business and shareholders all that money?

So unfair!!!!!
 
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