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Until the majority of people around the world buy into the fact that resources will become scarce not a lot will be done about it. Drastic changes can only be enforced by politics but politicians quite often only act if they come under great pressure to do so from the population (unless they are tak...

Always interesting to see the ingenious ways in which people try to save money! Good to see people using less fuel from an environmental point of view. It will also be interesting to see if it will reduce profits of the oil companies who always seem to make record profits no matter what the circumst...

Speaking as somebody who now lives below sea level (at high tide) I think that's unnecessarily alarmist. Our house survived the 1953 breaches of the flood defences and it would do the same again. It's not so much about sea level rise as about continued investment in sea defences. There will come a ...

Thanks for the reply. You make a very valid point about people trying to justify a rise of 1m by 2100. I believe that we shouldn't exaggerate the facts when trying to raise awareness of this issue as it discredits the cause, which is exactly what we don’t want. If it’s 53cm then it’s 53cm, just beca...

Hello. I clicked on a link to introduce myself to the community and I took me to this discussion on Peak Oil. Is this right? Anyway hello to everyone, my name is David and I have an interest in raising awareness of environmental issues to the UK public and hopefully get more people to buy into a sus...

Hi to anyone who is reading. I am new to this forum and I saw this story on the BBC News website about the acceleration in ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland and thought it would be of interest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12687272 I really wish people would start climate change ...

I think this could be a good idea and I know of a few other similar concepts but does anyone know what the payback, limiations etc. is on them? Obviously it is unlikely that you want to cover your entire roof with them as there will be an optimum position to use. Again I would expect them to be more...