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Risks To Our Environment And Hunting

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After our daughter of fifteen years of age was moved to tears by the speech of Greta Thunberg at the UN the other day, she became angry with our generation “who had been doing nothing for thirty years.”





So, we decided to help her prevent what the girl on TV announced of “massive eradication and the disappearance of entire ecosystems.”





We are now committed to give our daughter a future again, by doing our part to help cool the planet four degrees.





From now on she will go to school on a bicycle, because driving her by car costs fuel, and fuel puts emissions into the atmosphere. Of course it will be winter soon and then she will want to go by bus, but cycling through the freezing builds resilience.





Of course, she is now asking for an electric bicycle, but we have shown her the devastation caused to the areas of the planet as a result of mining for the extraction of Lithium and other minerals used to make batteries for electric bicycles, so she will be pedaling, or walking.





Which will not harm her, or the planet. We used to cycle and walk to school too.





Since the girl on TV demanded “we need to get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels” and our daughter agreed with her, we have disconnected the heat vent in her room. The temperature is now dropping to twelve degrees in the evening, and will drop below freezing in the winter, we have promised to buy her an extra sweater, hat, tights, gloves and a blanket.





For the same reason we have decided that from now on she only takes a cold shower. She will wash her clothes by hand, with a wooden washboard, because the washing machine is simply a power consumer and since the dryer uses natural gas, she will hang her clothes on the clothes line to dry, just like my parents and grandparents used to do.





Speaking of clothes, the ones that she currently has are all synthetic, so made from petroleum. Therefore on Monday, we will bring all her designer clothing to the secondhand shop.





We have found an eco store where the only clothing they sell is made from undyed and unbleached linen and jute. Also can’t have clothes made on wool, because the emissions from farting sheep are supposedly causing bad weather.





It shouldn’t matter that it looks good on her, or that she is going to be laughed at, dressing in colorless, bland clothes and without a wireless bra, but that is the price she has to pay for the benefit of The Climate.





Cotton is out of the question, as it comes from distant lands and pesticides are used for it. Very bad for the environment.
We just saw on her Instagram that she’s pretty angry with us. This was not our intention.





From now on, at 7 p.m. We will turn off the WiFi and we will only switch it on again the next day after dinner for two hours. In this way we will save on electricity, so she is not bothered by electro-stress and will be totally isolated from the outside world. This way, she can concentrate solely on her homework. At eleven o’clock in the evening we will pull the breaker to shut the power off to her room, so she knows that dark is really dark. That will save a lot of CO2.





She will no longer be participating in winter sports to ski lodges and resorts, nor will she be going on anymore vacations with us, because our vacation destinations are practically inaccessible by bicycle.





Since our daughter fully agrees with the girl on TV that the CO2 emissions and footprints of her great-grandparents are to blame for ‘killing our planet’, what all this simply means, is that she also has to live like her great-grandparents and they never had a holiday, a car or even a bicycle.





We haven’t talked about the carbon footprint of food yet.





Zero CO2 footprint means no meat, no fish and no poultry, but also no meat substitutes that are based on soy (after all, that grows in farmers fields, that use machinery to harvest the beans, trucks to transport to the processing plants, where more energy is used, then trucked to the packaging/canning plants, and trucked once again to the stores) and also no imported food, because that has a negative ecological effect. And absolutely no chocolate from Africa, no coffee from South America and no tea from Asia.





Only homegrown potatoes, vegetables and fruit that have been grown in local cold soil, because greenhouses run on boilers, piped in CO2 and artificial light. Apparently, these things are also bad for The Climate. We will teach her how to grow her own food.





Bread is still possible, but butter, milk, cheese and yogurt, cottage cheese and cream come from cows and they emit CO2. No more margarine and no oils will be used for the frying pan, because that fat is palm oil from plantations in Borneo where rain forests first grew.





No ice cream in the summer. No soft drinks and no energy drinks, as the bubbles are CO2.





We will also ban all plastic, because it comes from chemical factories. Everything made of steel and aluminum must also be removed. Have you ever seen the amount of energy a blast furnace consumes or an aluminum smelter? All bad for the climate!





We will replace her memory foam pillow top mattress, with a jute bag filled with straw, with a horse hair pillow.





And finally, she will no longer be using makeup, soap, shampoo, cream, lotion, conditioner, toothpaste and medication. Facewashers will all be linen, that she can wash by hand, with her wooden washboard, just like her female ancestors did before climate change made her angry at us for destroying her future.





In this way we will help her to do her part to prevent mass extinction, water levels rising and the disappearance of entire ecosystems.





If she truly believes she wants to walk the talk of the girl on TV, she will gladly accept and happily embrace her new way of life.
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Points well made but I feel we all can do a bit better on doing less harm to the planet and still have a comfortable life.
Simple things like buying used items instead of new, actually dressing warmer in winter instead of keeping the thermostat at 70 degrees, Cleaning the house with nature friendly products, recycling household waist, buying local made products as much as you can,not buying from Aamazon unless you have to ,getting a dozen packages delivered a week when you could have go to Meijers on the way home from work and bought the same stuff, Turning off lights when leaving a room, ect,ect.
I am not giving up meat any time soon or selling my car but do prefer to harvest my own meat as much as i can and do grow veggies as much as my small yard allows , and try to make good eco decisions when I have options.
I see lots of new houses built on 2 or 3 acres of land and its all grass that needs to be mowed with a industrial riding mower that is regularly fertilized and sprayed for weeds and gurbs/insects no one uses that much grass why not leave the trees and bursh have a small yard and and leave the habitat for refuge ?
We will all pay for the damage done in one way or another but we can still have a comfortable life and work to have less impact.
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My niece called me one evening after she had been to an earth day event and begged me not to cut down any more trees, as I am a forester and supervise a lot of commercial logging. :shock:

Much of it is ridiculous, for example someone who is protesting the removal of trees for the construction of an appartment complex immediately adjacent to the one they live in which obviously had trees removed before it's construction.

There is also a lot of manipulated information or just downright misinformation designed to elicit a more emotional response. For example at a water meeting I attended an "expert " reported that groundwater levels in a certain geographical area have been so depleted in recent years by modern irrigation that water from shallow wells becomes tannic during during flood events. The aquifer has been depleted, which can be accurately measured, but my dad grew up in that exact area and said that the water from their well became tannic in the 30s, which was before there were so many irrigation wells.

You really have to try to read from a source that is not politically oriented or designed to encourage donations.
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Daughter wants to go vegan (even though she loves meat) but I explain to her that the meat we eat is wild game that I hunt, deer, geese, turkey etc. So the meat we eat is 90% wild game and not farmed animals therefor we are doing our part for the environment.
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Maybe someone needs to tell the dinosaurs that they had too much gas!! That was their demise. If they'd stopped eating all that plant material they would still be around cause we all know fiber causes gas, right? :think: Perhaps the predators should have eaten more vegetarians??? :shh:
And Lord knows we can't do without trees because they give off oxygen. :thumbup: BUT...in order to make oxygen they MUST take in CO2!! :wtf: :roll: And if we stop CO2 emissions we kill the trees!! :sick:

First, it was "Global Warmimg" then they changed it to "Climate Change". Al Gore (what a joke), became a millionaire off of the fears of uninformed, misled people worldwide. No scientific proof, nothing but speculation, and spreading of lies and falsehoods by people for political gain.

And BTW... I DO have a degree in Biology!! :D

Chicken Little was right...."The sky is falling"!!!! :mrgreen:
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LMAO totally agree with all you said too bad the politician’s don’t realize all this. If you took half of that stuff away from them along with their cell phones they would be totally lost.
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I kinda laugh as I walk my dog past 3 schools everyday and the amount of garbage I pick up from the kids worried about the death of the planet we caused is amazing !
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