You can't offset carbon emissions with publicity.

The point ER were trying to make was smoke-screened with ordinary people who were disadvantaged and inconvenienced through their disruptive actions.

Net result was people thought ER and Emma Thompson were bellends.

The point that should have been made was lost.

Probably no different to the champions League, playing finals in stupid locations, and the excessive amount of games in the europa League, also NFL playing several games at Wembley

THIS USED TO BE A RUGBY FORUM

Still is I guess, the fact I linked a rugby issue with an environmental issue still makes it a rugby related one do you not agree

What a load of crap global warming is it’s bloody Nature and it was when I was young and it will always be so

Your right global warming is down to nature. Nature made a species that has the capacity for a short period to live outside the laws of evolution.

The species has become so successful that it over populates, which leads to a shift in the balance of nature. However, Newton was no idiot and for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Over population will be solved by nature being out of balance and reducing resources and environmental factors that would maintain the dominant species.

RL travelling or not travelling to Canada 15 times in a year will make no difference.

and this year's Nobel prize for science goes to.....

They definitely wont solve climate change but, their aim is to raise awareness and "persuade" the Government to act.
Their mass protest and disruption tactics have at least helped to increase awareness, which is a decent starting point.

Unless someone give them a "shove", people dont tend to act on anything that they believe doesn't directly affect them.
Even catastrophic events elsewhere on the planet wont change enough opinions.
Until the lights go out or there isn't any water to drink, most people will just carry on.

We live in a consumer driven ecconomy, which just doesn't fit with any form of preservation of resources.

Block this stupid thread now ffs

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At this moment in time I reckon there are other sports with much larger carbon footprints than rugby league.
Let's celebrate the fact that the game is trying to expand and stop knocking it.

Governments throughout history have never changed at the expense of profit without pressure from the people. The responsibility lies with the people. This is very naive.

You misunderstand what I mean. I mean that pressure should be brought to bear on governments and industry to make the necessary changes.

However what often happens is that that responsibility is actually passed on to the public and the individual.

The governments and industries remain passive and simply say it’s up to the market ie putting the responsibility on you and me to massively change our lifestyles and put huge amounts of effort into researching which products, which companies, what kind of energy usage, what kind of transport means etc etc is environmentally friendly and then being able to use these instead of what is made widely available and more cheaply by the current market.

That will never work. Quite understandably most people don’t have the time for that or the knowledge or ability to do so.

So people should absolutely pressure governments and industries. But the responsibility for change should not be on the average person. Whilst we can all recycle etc as an individual we can’t ensure transport is made clean, energy, production of goods etc are made clean. But governments and industry can.

Good example being electric cars. Their sales are quite naturally limited because customers are concerned about the number of charging points, range, charging time etc.
So we should pressure government to work with the car industry and invest in a mass network of super fast charging points along with research into faster charging batteries etc.

The vitriol that was thrown at Emma Thompson for using a now standard and accepted method of transport was pathetic. That is not her responsibility. It’s the responsibility of governments and the airline and manufacturers to come up with better cleaner alternatives, not Emma Thompson.

The pressure is directed at the wrong areas of society. It’s currently directed at the people when it should be full square on governments and industry.