Amps & Zdog's Viva La Revolution thread

Amps · 3 Jan

RichM Hopefully the airlines can improve things over time so they are not causing

Are you hoping the Easter Bunny is real too!

OOld-Dutch · 3 Jan

Amps Haven’t sorted an ethical bank yet

Good luck with that one, lol

alistair · 3 Jan

Hursty · 3 Jan

Amps sounds like you are “going for it”, kudos to your attempts to minimise impact on the world, hopefully it helps reduce your climate anxiety so you can enjoy life as well!

OOld-Dutch · 3 Jan

More taxes reduce climate change

Amps · 3 Jan

Old-Dutch

Amps · 3 Jan

Old-Dutch Consumerism is the biggest driver. Circular economys needed.

Amps · 3 Jan

Hursty Climate anger rather than anxiety. Too many psychopaths in charge. Too many bootlickers happy to enable them.

Hursty · 3 Jan

Amps Do you see yourself staying in the UK or perhaps a more lower impact life in some other country?

Amps · 3 Jan

Hursty I’d like to move to Scotland, but it won’t be happening any time soon.

hugopal · 4 Jan

Amps Choosing to not have children, I haven’t taken a flight anywhere in over five years

If you’re not having kids then why do you even give a flying fuck what the climate will be like for future generations?!?!

Homegrove · 4 Jan

Imagine caring about the future of other people besides your own family you stupid fucking bastard.

Mad_Cyril · 4 Jan

Homegrove
LOL.

Good point, well made

hugopal · 4 Jan

Homegrove Imagine caring about the future of other people besides your own family you stupid fucking bastard.

If you think that having kids is a bad thing, then why would you support and care for the kids other people are having?

Because otherwise it’s like Amps saying that he doesn’t think it’s morally right that he should drive a gas-guzzling 4×4, yet he encourages other people to do so, applauds them when they do, and even buys them a nice air freshener and some new tires as a gift so they have a more pleasant journey.

RichM · 5 Jan

There is something that Hugo has said which sort of makes sense (I think). Amps has chosen not to have kids as a rationale for what he is doing to protect the planet. Yet based on his views of me flying and he doesn’t, must also suggest that anyone who has kids (ie opposite of what he is doing) aren’t making the right choices for our planet? Am I on the right path here?

But if we all do the same as Amps, as he clearly thinks he lives his life in a positive way to our planet / society, then we will be extinct within 100 odd years anyway

Mad_Cyril · 5 Jan

RichM
You’re forgetting Amps is Ginger Rich

Fostering flambé haired savants with corned beef skin on a continuously warming planet would be cruel at best.

Amps is a good bloke, annd an humanist ant heart, all too keen that SPF technology would be outstripped by the skincare needs of his offspring.

Amps · 5 Jan

Mad_Cyril SPF

Factor ‘duffle coat’, every time.

Smallman1 · 5 Jan

Fair play to Amps, he’s walking the talk as they say.

Along_the_Wire · 5 Jan

RichM you don’t need 3 or 4 kids - that’s where the population problem is.

hugopal · 5 Jan

RichM There is something that Hugo has said which sort of makes sense (I think). Amps has chosen not to have kids as a rationale for what he is doing to protect the planet. Yet based on his views of me flying and he doesn’t, must also suggest that anyone who has kids (ie opposite of what he is doing) aren’t making the right choices for our planet? Am I on the right path here?

But if we all do the same as Amps, as he clearly thinks he lives his life in a positive way to our planet / society, then we will be extinct within 100 odd years anyway

Yes, that is what his “logic” indicates.

If having no kids is a commendable, morally righteous act which helps save the planet, then it would imply that having kids is an objectionable, morally improper act which helps destroy the planet.