Re: your last sentence
Recently came across this overpopulation-project.com/overshoot-day-the-other-side-of-the-coin/
Unfortunately pointing out that human overpopulation is a real threat to biodiversity is now considered racist by some environmentalists.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 19:14,
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Those particular Environmentalists are significantly more damaging than any number of climate change deniers could be.
They're usually the same Environmentalists that join Extinction Rebellion protests and sit outside government buildings breastfeeding their third child and absolutely refuse to accept that the ecological cost of having one child is greater than they could ever hope to scrape back through a lifetime of environmentally friendly living.
I completely understand that for the majority, the instinctual drive to reproduce is overwhelming. You'd be far more likely to convince most people to go entirely vegan, ditch their cars and wipe their arses with a reusable cloth than you would be to convince them to never have children. But these cunts who stand on their soapboxes and lecture the public about climate change before driving home in their Range Rover with their three kids in tow are hypocritical cunts of the highest order. And those cunts make up an awful lot of these Environmentalist groups.
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I'm with you on the Range Rover environmentalists.
I'm a great believer in fixing your own shit first before lecturing others.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 3 Jul 2020, 19:49,
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I live next door to one
They drive a 4x4 in a city, have three kids, and last year put a massive extension on their house.
But it's OK, they also put an extinction rebellion postcard in their front window which negates all of that.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 21:16,
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Extinction Rebellion are the absolute fucking worst for that kind of shit.
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Unfortunately the norm
Just hope they buy a
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 4 Jul 2020, 1:02,
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Surely it is dependent on whether they only refer to other races.
Saying there are too many people everywhere, cannot be.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 3 Jul 2020, 19:46,
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It doesn't need to be rational.
"There's loads of people in China and India, what you're basically saying is there are too many Asians. RACIST".
Never mind that ten years ago there were some perfectly good green fields and a lovely woodland walk down the road which has now been flattened, tarmacked, and turned into a development of affordable homes because we're all living too long and making children too soon to reuse the homes that have already been built.
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Ordnance Survey data suggests
that all the buildings in the UK - houses, shops, offices, factories, greenhouses - cover 1.4% of the total land surface. Looking at England alone, the figure still rises to only 2%.
Buildings cover less of Britain than the land revealed when the tide goes out.
The complaint that vast swathes of our landscape have been "concreted over" doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
But don't let me stop you. You were complaining about the people who let emotion, not rationality, guide their thoughts.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 21:21,
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It's actually closer to 7.5%
When you include things like Roads, Industrial and Leisure developments. Granted, that still doesn't seem like much on paper, but most people live in an area where the immediate availability of green space is significantly lower than that, and is only shrinking as occupancy expands. It'd be interesting to see a comparison against numbers in the 70's or 80's.
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Well 2% of that 'developed land' in England is just golf courses
That would be a 'leasure development' which is over a quarter of that 7.5%.
Just golf courses.
Want to complain about something?
Complain about that, not houses.
We could double the housing in England and all we would have to do is use the golf courses and nothing else.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 4 Jul 2020, 15:52,
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