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[johnalison]

Not growing as much as you may think. A large proportion of the demand for housing is a consequence of divorce and separated couples. Most children in secondary education now come from what used to be called ‘broken homes’. As a retired teacher I found it surprising how few students came from ‘conventional families’,

The proportion of children born to parents who were not married exceeded the 50% mark this year for the first time, so they say.

 

[Pye_End]

It worries me when people make such a categorical statement that leaves no room for negotiation.

I have to presume you are unaware that energy only accounts for half fossil fuel use? To illustrate, you are looking at the use of the other half whilst reading this post. The plastic that your computer, shirt, underpants, your TV, GRP for your boat, your foul weather gear, washing machine, fridge, washing up liquid bottle packaging that keeps your food protected and fresh .. the list is endless ... all are made from fossil carbohydrates. We cannot substitute "natural" materials like wood and wool for oil based products. The last time we tried that we cleared most of our forests to make ships (the Victory alone took 150Ha of ancient oak forest) and slaughtered most of the wales in our oceans.

But to blow your envoiro trumpet it angers me how we waste the gift that is oil on single use plastics for our convenience. We need a reset of our thinking. But we annot afford to eimply abandon fossil based products overnight. Sri Lankla tried that and now they are actually starving.

Thanks for the rant, but I used the word 'FUEL' - as a 'material such as coal, gas, or oil that is burned to produce heat or power. ' If you make things with it, it is no longer a fuel.

But now you mention plastic, does it not worry you that such a fabulous material also has such huge environmental concerns - particularly waste, and micro plastics? Micro plastics have been found almost everywhere including in many animals Does the thought of micoplastics building up also in humans concern you, especially as we currently have no understanding of the long term implications to health?

But to backtrack a little - air. It is the item which occurred to me first when you said humans do not depend on the environment - how, in your concrete utopia do you plan to keep the air sweet? Man seems far more capable of polluting it than cleaning it. How is man converting CO2 into O2 and carbon (stored)?

Man is a million miles from understanding the intricacies of nature (Earth has been a highly complex lab for a very, very long time) - man is nowhere near being able to replicate what nature does. The world changes, and nature has many of the answers to change - and that includes how farming looks to the challenges of feeding the world.