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Originally Posted by Rickoshea
Hands up, we installed a wood burner in our London suburb home and most of the wood we burn is locally sourced either from our garden or those of our neighbours. It is DEFRA approved for use in smokeless zones so assume it is not outputting too much rubbish and less that those around us driving their deeply anti-social diesels cars and 4x4s.
Whilst I think man-made global warming is just nonsense, I also thing we should minimise our impact and if you can make electricity from sunshine, why would you not? We have PV panels on our roof and a Tesla battery to store it for the evenings. Last year we were 74% self sufficient and with the house heavily insulated have our combined gas and electricity bill down to under £600 a year for a 4 bed detached house occupied 24X7 by a couple of pensioners. Our petrol car clocks up 4k miles per year thanks to our access to free travel from London Transport.
Only area that would offend the tree huggers is two long haul and two short haul holidays a year but then air travel only accounts for less that 3% of CO2 whilst cement production accounts for 9%….
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Well, very well done to you, so you think human activity contributes nothing and is contributing nothing towards global warming, a nonsense even, clearly a man living in a lovely suburban environment, oblivious to his surroundings, seemingly doing all the right things and enjoying a clearly well deserved retirement, having worked all his life without contributing a single thing towards global warming, tell that to the people living in the Pacific and Indian ocean basins whose island paradises will be underwater in a decade or so, that is if they are lucky.
Now, you can still carry on believing in this nonsense, or you may even wake up in between you travelling up and down the globe (without of course contributing a thing towards global warming) oblivious to the needs of others as well as to the environment in which we all live, love your quoted statistics by the way, imagine '74% self sufficient' such accuracy!.
Anyway you carry on if it pleases you, just saying...