Comments on: Save Energy With the Right Landscaping

By: Oh, golly!

Oh, golly! — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:27:59 +0000

There’s a lot of bs about regarding this topic. The facts have been buried under a lot of propagande. China is building new power stations, but it has been closing down even more. It has been shutting down the INefficient ones at the rate of over 300 in a year. The new ones are more efficient and emit less CO2 and that’s seen as a more sensible thing to do than to run old ones.

The west, through its cars alone emit more CO2 than China does in totality. Yet we don’t really want to curb our driving. I watch the school runs with dismay as I cycle past the long queues of cars waiting with engines switched on. So if we want to curb global warming, we have to start with oursleves instead of poitning fingers at others. As for forests, we are cutting down our own temperate forests at a rate that is as fast as the tropical ones are being felled.
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By: Max Power

Max Power — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:25:59 +0000

Without wanting to start a debate ,I doubt if any of these factors will actually make much of a difference ,I am being to side on the global season theory , after all we did have ice ages ,an massive volcanoes that changed the earths climate with no influence from man
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By: Avondrow

Avondrow — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:23:59 +0000

Countries like China need to stop building fossil fuel power stations every 20 minutes, and we as a culture need to stop our obsession with the internal combustion engine and personal transport. Until then, no domestic measures will make any difference. You are not going to save the planet by switching a monitor off or recycling coke cans, that is just a comforting delusion.
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By: fari

fari — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:21:32 +0000

What will it take for us to save the planet from heating up?
If it is more forests, or less industrial pollution from production in factories, or no cars and planes and rockets, or less cementing over the landscape, or less dumping of chemicals or less energy consumption for domestic use (machine washers dryers cooker air con radiators etc)……what can we – in our every day lives – do to influence the rest of humanity?