Climate: The Movie

[MattPo]

Introduced as climate change measures, claiming knock-on effects for people's health.

Strangely though, it's OK if you pay, so looks more of a revenue earner. If us with ICE vehicles pay we can produce as many asthma inducing particles as we like.

on the 15 minutes, cart before horse.

Provide the facilities.
https://www.barratthomes.co.uk/new-h...-bernets-nook/
WE have 600 new houses, Section 106 money stolen by the LA to be spent elsewhere in the town. No community facilities, no footpath for families to get their kids across Broken Stone Rd (which has no footpaths) and through the Gib Lane Masterplan Development of around 1000 homes.
School land was earmarked on planning permsission in 2014, but no school, so primary kids are being driven to options further away and older kids are being bussed out of BwD to Preston, South Ribble, Bolton and Ribble Valley Schools.

I could go on, but you get my point.

You do not kick off 15 minute neighborhoods by restricting the publics ability to move around an area when there are no options within that area, not even a corner shop.

What Blackburn have done is taken grants to provide cycle lanes and bus lanes. It's a real botch job to access the funding with come sections of bike lane less than 10 metres in length, but they count towards the total.
But when the main A roads are single lane, with Victorian terraces lining them, the options to widen and add bus and cycle lanes are clearly limited, and efforts to do so sub-optimal.

Why don't you stand for your local council so you could have a positive influence?

[Witton Park]

Why don't you stand for your local council so you could have a positive influence?

In 1999 didn't join the Tory Party, but a friends mother was running in our ward and it had been Labour for 18 years.
I put in about 8 weeks knocking on doors, leafleting, home calling, giving lifts to vote on election day and I attended the count.
She won, but I found lots of things that put me off local politics and party politics.

Between 2002 and 2019 I was quite involved with the Local Authority, working with Councillors and Directors of Service/Senior Management on events linked to Blackburn Harriers. I was also fostering for 6-7 years of that time so involved on more than one front.

I find councillors have little influence.

If you are in opposition, all you can do is ask for information, or action for a member of the public and sometimes you get nowhere, or no response.

It's not much better if you are part of the leading group.

The LA is run by the Chief Exec and directors of service.

So I think running as a councillor would be a waste of time and energy. One is unlikely to win unless part of a party and even then there is little one can do.

Looking back I believe the spare time that I had was better used coaching, team managing, event organising than if I had tried to get involved in politics.

I couldn't have done both.

[Mossdog]

What happens when you try and ask your local council Environmental Panel some pertinent questions about the consequences of net-zero in your town? Ordinary Brits sensing a complete 'stitch-up'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqUP2QTQgVM

[Witton Park]

What happens when you try and ask your local council Environmental Panel some pertinent questions about the consequences of net-zero in your town? Ordinary Brits sensing a complete 'stitch-up'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqUP2QTQgVM

alt right

[Mossdog]

alt right

Haven't you heard? Swastikas are de rigueur once again.

[mr brightside]

I finally remembered to bring an HDMI lead back from work so i can watch it on the TV. One thing that stands out in the whole issue is that one side is actively suppressing the other, and there ends their scientific curiosity; the scientific method gives way to bigotry and taboo. The story is the same with the mind/body problem and psy phenomena. Only more data will progress the climate issue; about 1000yrs worth will do it, so i suggest we park it for a while.

[Witton Park]

I didn't want to start a new thread, and this is linked to a view of the "political" threads so I opted for this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILEMV0xKGh4

It should concern everyone that this goes on.

I saw it yesterday.

I then find out this morning that Youtube overnight has gone after Tim Pool and Timcast Irl, which is probably the largest political/culture discussion programme on Youtube.

It's election year :/