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Rosehip
Rosehip
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12:31pm, 10 Nov 2021
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Hmm, I find that hard to believe based on how many spend their day shitting in my garden and stalking the birds!
rf_fozzy
rf_fozzy
Nov 2021
12:32pm, 10 Nov 2021
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Cognitive bias?
paulcook
paulcook
Nov 2021
12:32pm, 10 Nov 2021
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When I work from home, I see cats walking past my window all day long, but I think it's just two different ones.
MarkyMarkMark (3M)
MarkyMarkMark (3M)
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12:37pm, 10 Nov 2021
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rf_fozzy, at least you didn't suggest the Korean approach to reducing the dog population. :-o That really does disturb dog owners....

Getting back to the point a bit - is there scope for a "What will I do in 2022 to reduce my environmental impact" pledge forum on Fetch?
JRitchie
JRitchie
Nov 2021
12:50pm, 10 Nov 2021
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Pledges: My employer is using count us in as part of an initiative for drive local / personal change. Create some healthy competition amongst offices.

count-us-in.org
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
Nov 2021
1:17pm, 10 Nov 2021
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We're using Pawprint

pawprint.eco

I found the Carbon Calculator... unhelpful!

Pledge? Err prob not. I'm doing a bit bit prob not enough! :-) G
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
Nov 2021
1:20pm, 10 Nov 2021
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E.g. for just 2 peeps large house, 1 dog, 7 horses, 5 pigs, 3 cars, wasteful hobbies, NZ family (several long haul flights every few years), widely located UK family (several short haul flights a year) etc!
Hanneke
Hanneke
Nov 2021
1:23pm, 10 Nov 2021
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Rosehip, I know quite a few countries now ban cats from going outside, including the Netherlands...
I have a cat myself, but hate other people's cats shitting in my garden. Mine has been trained to go on the toilet, very easy to do... And doesn't shit outside... She is also too clever to catch birds: much more energy efficient to catch a rodent ;)
Hanneke
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1:25pm, 10 Nov 2021
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Happy, I now understand why you keep pushing your EV to the fore! To hide your seriously bad habits ;)
Hanneke
Hanneke
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1:27pm, 10 Nov 2021
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At least my animals are all working animals: 4 chickens that lay eggs, free range, produce manure and compost and weed the food forest and keep the veg garden largely slug free.
The cat keeps the house and outbuildings free of rodents and tries to reduce the vole population to manageable.
It is a win/win :)

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Hi
I've seen environment (whether emissions, power, climate change, access to countryside, whatever you think of as "environment") discussed in various threads: Politics (obviously), the Electric Car thread fetcheveryone.com/forum/electric-car-anyone-61481/ , run free's excellent "Competitive Running and Keeping The Environment Clean" fetcheveryone.com/forum/running-competitively-keeping-our-environment-clean-60907/ my own Greta Thunberg thread fetcheveryone.com/forum/greta-thunberg---jfk-for-the-climate-generation-61044/ etc. but I haven't seen a general one.

So here it is. For those interested in the science, the politics, the action for (and I'll state that for me, this is mostly pro-environment, anti-emissions, anti-pollution etc.) and the hope for the future of our planet.

Useful links posted by contributors:
rf_fozzy: This is quite a good article about how disruptive technology works too: lesswrong.com
Basically about why Kodak completely missed the boat when it came to digital cameras timkastelle.org
run free's Grand Designs example Ben Laws is a man who built his dream: granddesignsmagazine.com granddesignsmagazine.com
Carbon Commentary carboncommentary.com
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