G7

[Cousin Jack]

In case any of you missed it, the G7 summit is happening in Cornwall at the moment. It has brought some excitement, a great deal of congestion and general buggeration, and literally 000's of policemen to the Duchy.

Today I have seen 2 V22 Ospreys (weird helicopter/plane combo) flying around, had local to me roads closed for Joe Biden to go to Eden, and for Kate and William to get to their helicopter on the local golf course, and CBA to join about a zillion people trying to get to places where they could watch the Red Arrows. People living in Carbis Bay/St Ives have had even more excitement, but a HUGE amount of buggeration.

Now generally I am not a great climate activist. I have eventually accepted that the climate is probably changing, and that homo sapiens may have something to do with it, and that this is a bad thing and needs sorting. I certainly agree that we are polluting the ocean with plastics, and we need to do something about that or it will come back and bite our arse. However I do seriously question whether having a summit with assorted 'world leaders' jetting across continents (and bringing their security cousins and aunts with them) is the right way to tackle the problem. IF they really do need a meeting to agree the bleeding obvious, the technology of today permits video-conferencing. FFS we have all been using it for months since Covid kicked in.

Am I being unreasonable? The G7 strikes me as like fucking for virginity. How sat the RTTL massive?

[MrLongbeard]

meh

[KungFooBob]

Bloody NIMBY.

[irie]

Plus ça change

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Pass the Duchy on the left hand side

[Saga Lout]

You just don't understand. These people are world leaders, they have to fly in their private jets and their helicopters to demonstrate how important they are. If we didn't realise how important they are we wouldn't listen to them when they tell us climate change is all our fault and we should stop going on holiday and eating meat.

Stands to reason, innit.

[ZRX61]

Much hilarity over the mask wearing & not wearing. Especially by Biden, Macron & that Canadian idiot.

[Jody]

There's a summit every year, every year the summit produces excess pollution, every year people point his out, nothing changes !

[cheb]

It's just human behaviour writ large.

"They don't make quality products that last any more". Eschews quality product and buys cheap tat from China.
"It's disgraceful the rich avoid taxes" Pays builder cash in hand.
"It's terrible local shops are closing" Places Amazon order.
"Property prices are so high locals can't afford them" Sells house to highest bidder.

I could, and unfortunately do, go on.

[DefTrap]

It's just human behaviour writ large.

"They don't make quality products that last any more". Eschews quality product and buys cheap tat from China.
"It's disgraceful the rich avoid taxes" Pays builder cash in hand.
"It's terrible local shops are closing" Places Amazon order.
"Property prices are so high locals can't afford them" Sells house to highest bidder.

I could, and unfortunately do, go on.

Agree with all that, but you'd think world leaders would at least try to "show us the way".

Or is it only sportspeople who need to be role models ?

[Mr. Dazzle]

I did enjoy the irony of Red Arrows display leaving trails of unburned hydrocarbons in the air on the day they talked about climate change

[Yorick]

Motorcyclists who just burn fuel for fun, still moaning about others wasting fuel.

[Asian Boss]

It's worthwhile and necessary.

Let's hope for some more stringent rules and green taxes.

[ZRX61]

My step-brother took his kite up yesterday from Davidstow & apparently got within about a mile of having to deal with RAF Typhoons...

[Cousin Jack]

My step-brother took his kite up yesterday from Davidstow & apparently got within about a mile of having to deal with RAF Typhoons...

Didn't he know - most of Cornwall is a no-fly zone.

[ZRX61]

Not the bit around Davidstow
He also buzzed Bude GCHQ.

[ZRX61]

[Yorick]

Not the bit around Davidstow
He also buzzed Bude GCHQ.

He sounds as big a knob as you.

[Saga Lout]

Motorcyclists who just burn fuel for fun, still moaning about others wasting fuel.

Not quite. They're moaning about people wasting fuel who then tell the rest of us not to waste fuel. It's not the fuel wasting that's the problem, it's the hypocrisy.

[ZRX61]

Not the bit around Davidstow
He also buzzed Bude GCHQ.

He sounds as big a knob as you.

How so? He didn't do anything illegal or even questionable. Just stooging around in some rotax powered bug smasher... or were you just being an argumentative prick?