Time Person of the Year 2019

[Berty 74]

Nobody will do anything because it's an inconvenience for whichever generations happen to be alive and active at the time, and is generally a vote-loser which is obviously the most important thing.  Also lol an uppity teenager!
(Somebody already used "spout" twice in a single post.)

 

Mmm... short-term nomness.  Let's hope our kids aren't ####ed.  Wait.

Edited December 27, 2019 by Berty

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

2 hours ago, Ban Hammer said:

 

 

Have a little compassion for those of us posting from underwater.

[Boiler 45,972]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/28/bbc-put-presenter-on-a-plane-to-interview-greta-thunberg

 

Putting a presenter on a flight to Sweden to meet climate activist Greta Thunberg “felt awkward”, the editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme has admitted.

The 16-year-old campaigner, who was a guest editor on a special edition of the show, avoids air travel because of its environmental impact.

The BBC sent presenter Mishal Husain on a return flight to Stockholm to interview her.

Programme editor Sarah Sands told the Sunday Times: “We did discuss that among ourselves. It felt awkward but we did not have the time for trains or boats.”

The paper said the trip to Stockholm is estimated to have amounted to almost half a ton of carbon dioxide emissions per person.

 

ROFL, presumably they could not just call?

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

47 minutes ago, Boiler said:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/28/bbc-put-presenter-on-a-plane-to-interview-greta-thunberg

 

Putting a presenter on a flight to Sweden to meet climate activist Greta Thunberg “felt awkward”, the editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme has admitted.

The 16-year-old campaigner, who was a guest editor on a special edition of the show, avoids air travel because of its environmental impact.

The BBC sent presenter Mishal Husain on a return flight to Stockholm to interview her.

Programme editor Sarah Sands told the Sunday Times: “We did discuss that among ourselves. It felt awkward but we did not have the time for trains or boats.”

The paper said the trip to Stockholm is estimated to have amounted to almost half a ton of carbon dioxide emissions per person.

 

ROFL, presumably they could not just call?

Phone calls to Sweden are detrimental to the environment because the NSA's footprint drastically increases to monitor the call.