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Heidi Tiger · 20-07-2009, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Nevermore

You're confusing exaggeration with mild sarcasm. As well as being closed minded with having an opinion. You seem to be on about the envioronment and how people don't have a problem throwing plenty of female products into landfills, and the way you were going on about the environment seemed to be pretty closed-minded. Throughout this thread, you can't deny, there has been a lot of conversation revolving around the environment. It's a matter of personal preference, and mine is that it's gross and that it's not going to make much of a difference as far as damage to the environment if we don't re-use these products. Others have their own opinion and that's fine. Even though it might not have seemed this way from what I posted, I am a very open-minded person, however I am also sometimes very sarcastic, and I apologize if that offended you.
I'm actually getting a little kick out of how serious this discussion has gotten.

But one person using the car instead of the bus wont make that much impact in reducing carbon emissions, neither will one person sourcing their food locally, shopping from charity shops and turning everything off at the plug. It's a cumulative effect and I don't think being concerned about the state our planet is in can ever be said to be closed-minded. It's a simple fact that if everyone doesn't make some large adjustments to their lifestyle this planet is screwed. So pointing out habits that are harmful to the environment is important. Having just been to see some simulations of how ecosystems can be affected by just 0.5 degrees of warming and measurements of methane fluxes (which both disposable nappies and sanitary pads release in landfill sites) and it is scary stuff. Sure you might not like to hear people banging on about the environment, but when harvests are failing because of lack of water and the temperature being too hot, when the city your children would live in becomes swamped by rising tide levels, when cases of malignant melanoma sky-rocket, then I'm fairly certain you might think twice about dismissing those who talk about damage to the environment.

20-07-2009, 04:36 PM	#173
Heidi Tiger Loon NOS Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Nottingham I am currently:	Quote: Originally Posted by Nevermore You're confusing exaggeration with mild sarcasm. As well as being closed minded with having an opinion. You seem to be on about the envioronment and how people don't have a problem throwing plenty of female products into landfills, and the way you were going on about the environment seemed to be pretty closed-minded. Throughout this thread, you can't deny, there has been a lot of conversation revolving around the environment. It's a matter of personal preference, and mine is that it's gross and that it's not going to make much of a difference as far as damage to the environment if we don't re-use these products. Others have their own opinion and that's fine. Even though it might not have seemed this way from what I posted, I am a very open-minded person, however I am also sometimes very sarcastic, and I apologize if that offended you. I'm actually getting a little kick out of how serious this discussion has gotten. But one person using the car instead of the bus wont make that much impact in reducing carbon emissions, neither will one person sourcing their food locally, shopping from charity shops and turning everything off at the plug. It's a cumulative effect and I don't think being concerned about the state our planet is in can ever be said to be closed-minded. It's a simple fact that if everyone doesn't make some large adjustments to their lifestyle this planet is screwed. So pointing out habits that are harmful to the environment is important. Having just been to see some simulations of how ecosystems can be affected by just 0.5 degrees of warming and measurements of methane fluxes (which both disposable nappies and sanitary pads release in landfill sites) and it is scary stuff. Sure you might not like to hear people banging on about the environment, but when harvests are failing because of lack of water and the temperature being too hot, when the city your children would live in becomes swamped by rising tide levels, when cases of malignant melanoma sky-rocket, then I'm fairly certain you might think twice about dismissing those who talk about damage to the environment.
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