Making Environmental Issues Tangible

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  1. Isl

    Isle of Wight Tyke Active Member

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    I've just put 2 tea bags into a compost bin at work, can someone please tell me exactly how many penguins or polar bears I have saved and more importantly when they'll thank me?
     
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    My current toilet tissue

    is made from Recycled Paper.

    Have any rainforests called to thank me for being such a considerate arris wiper, have they B*ll*cks
     
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    No you are mixing up two issues

    Global warming which is allegedly affecting polarbears and pengins (though actually numbers of bears have increased recently - just 2 areas off Canada where they have fallen).
    Global warming is caused by transporting tea leaves from India and Sri lanka on nasty Aeroplanes or nice ships both generating lots of nasty COz
    Its also caused by coal or gas fired power stations which generate energy for you to boil your kettle so you have already done the damage by having the cuppa in the first place.

    You are trying to offset that by reducing the need to use landfil to comply with an EU directive dreamt up by Holland and Belgium who had run out of space. wasnt a problem in the UK until the one size fits all directive was issued from Brussels

    so composting your t bags actually saves precisely 0 pengiuns and 0 polar bears - hope thats clear
     
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    well they can all boll*cks then, I'm just off to B&Q to buy 12 patio heaters.
     
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    also, who's that bird who says "ooh it's great being a super model, but it's better being a role model for my son, so I wash our clothes at 30 degrees". Anyway, I don't wash my clothes at all and nobody thanks me, in fact people are quite blatantly rude about it.
     
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