The school run.

[Drago]

I used to live opposite my kids school. Literally 200 yards. I'd drop them off occasionally, on my way to work. I think a lot of parents in my village do it. You can condemn them for it, but it's kind of condemning people for having kids. If we stop, then our race will die out. May be a good thing, but certainly not for cycling. It wouldn't work without people.

(My kids now get the school bus, so you don't need to shoot me anymore, unless it's retrospective punishment).

Why did you not walk them to school, then walk the 60 seconds home to fetch the car, and thus reduce the congestion and pollution caused when stopping/parking by the school?

You talk about punishing people for having children, and I'm sure the comment was meant to be tongue in cheek. Nevertheless, we make our own choices in life, and everything from planetary over population to pollution, is in some small partnyour responsibility when you choose to become a parent.

I don't propose anyone be punished for being a parent, but I do propose that they take some responsibility for their choice and don't use it as a justification for inflicting needless pollution and congestion on the rest of us.

 

[raleighnut]

In my day we had school busses

Same here but for some reason they sent kids from Enderby (and surrounding villages) to Lutterworth Grammar School (only a comprehensive by then but the moniker had stuck)

 

[gavroche]

That's what's killing our planet.

The planet is not dying, it will survive anything we do to it. We are our own worst enemy and we are the ones in danger, not planet earth.

 

[Drago]

We - the human race - are quite capable of eradicating all life from the biosphere, be it in one massive holocaust, or choking it slowly over a period of time. Once life is gone, it's gone.

How does any life form survive that?

The planet could survive as a rocky husk, but we're more than able to erase life in a multitude of different ways. After all, the anthropogenic extinction of about two thirds or the species that would otherwise be alive today has already happened. What makes you so sure can't carry on and exterminate them all?

 

[snorri]

If you translate the text below the video you will see that they had to take their cars.

Really?

 

[snorri]

The planet is not dying, it will survive anything we do to it. .

You are Mr Trump AICMFP

 

[Dayvo]

The planet is not dying, it will survive anything we do to it. We are our own worst enemy and we are the ones in danger, not planet earth.

All right, then, clever clogs. Why is there no life on ANY of ALL the gazillions and stonkillions of other planets in the bit of space known as the universe?

This is the LAST place left, and time is running out as I type this.

 

[raleighnut]

We - the human race - are quite capable of eradicating all life from the biosphere, be it in one massive holocaust, or choking it slowly over a period of time. Once life is gone, it's gone.

How does any life form survive that?

The planet could survive as a rocky husk, but we're more than able to erase life in a multitude of different ways. After all, the anthropogenic extinction of about two thirds or the species that would otherwise be alive today has already happened. What makes you so sure can't carry on and exterminate them all?

Shortly followed by ourselves.

 

[gavroche]

All right, then, clever clogs. Why is there no life on ANY of ALL the gazillions and stonkillions of other planets in the bit of space known as the universe?

This is the LAST place left, and time is running out as I type this.

Rubbish. We are not alone in the universe. There are other civilisations but they are so far away, we will never find them. There are billions of stars and billions of planets so it is inconceivable that we are alone. We may all be at different stages of technical knowledge due the enormous distances involved and time it takes for light to travel. We may be alone in our own galaxy but there are millions others.

 

[Brains]

If you translate the text below the video you will see that they had to take their cars.

"Unionville Elementary School in Monroe, NC has a problem. It is located in a very remote rural area. 700 children attend this school each morning. And some live more than 20 km from the school. Parents are obliged to take their cars to drop off their children at school. But the influx of cars in the morning causes traffic jams. The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) conducted a test to try to smooth traffic. They asked the parents not to park in the parking lot and forced them to drop off their children in front of the school. For the occasion, there were two ways to get to the entrance of the school. Parking was used to form an S with queues of one way cars. But as we can see in the video, the result was a failure. They eventually abandoned this idea."

Pity, because as far as I could see the idea worked superbly. OK, so they had a long tailback on the road in both directions, but that could have been dealt with by making a double 'S' in the car park or by widening the road, or using another car park if they have one, or having a staggered start, or installing traffic lights. Basically loads of options to make it work. Anything must be better than the current situation of dropping them off in the car park, as that must make longer queues on the road

 

[gavroche]

We - the human race - are quite capable of eradicating all life from the biosphere, be it in one massive holocaust, or choking it slowly over a period of time. Once life is gone, it's gone.

How does any life form survive that?

The planet could survive as a rocky husk, but we're more than able to erase life in a multitude of different ways. After all, the anthropogenic extinction of about two thirds or the species that would otherwise be alive today has already happened. What makes you so sure can't carry on and exterminate them all?

There will be microlife left, no matter what we do. It exists deep in the oceans already. Many forms of life may become extinct but not all forms of life . We don't have the power to do that, thankfully. Planet earth and living things will survive human beings. The planet will die of all life when the sun dies off in 5 billions years or if we collide with another planet.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

We - the human race - are quite capable of eradicating all life from the biosphere, be it in one massive holocaust, or choking it slowly over a period of time. Once life is gone, it's gone.

How does any life form survive that?

The planet could survive as a rocky husk, but we're more than able to erase life in a multitude of different ways. After all, the anthropogenic extinction of about two thirds or the species that would otherwise be alive today has already happened. What makes you so sure can't carry on and exterminate them all?

Life on Earth will survive, we're not quite so clever and coordinated as to be able to eradicate ourselves plus every other form of life at the same time. I do think mammal life will become extinct at some point thanks to humans and their impact, but life in some form will continue and evolve. Shame we won't see it!

 

[Dayvo]

Rubbish. We are not alone in the universe. There are other civilisations but they are so far away, we will never find them. There are billions of stars and billions of planets so it is inconceivable that we are alone. We would want also be at different stages of technical knowledge due the enormous distances involved and time it takes for light to travel. We may be alone in our own galaxy but there are millions others.

It's all right, I believe.

 

[Drago]

There will be microlife left, no matter what we do. It exists deep in the oceans already. Many forms of life may become extinct but not all forms of life . We don't have to power to do that, thankfully. Planet earth and living things will survive human beings. The planet will die of all life when the sun dies off in 5 billions years or if we collide with another planet.

That's a pretty big assumption. If the biosphere is irradiated enough there will be no life left, full stop. Not in the deepest ocean or the highest mountains.

Look at Mars, quite likely did harbour life once even if only basic cellular stuff. The lack of a magnetosphere slowly allows the solar wind to strip away most of the atmosphere, with no atmosphere the radiations and UV is further reduced, au revoir life. A giant experiment laid out for is to study.

Life its pretty resilient, very resilient even, but it's not immortal or impervious to anything like the worst that man or nature can throw at it. Did my undergrad in Planetary Studies, post grad in Celestial Mechanics.

 

[biggs682]

Rubbish. We are not alone in the universe. There are other civilisations but they are so far away, we will never find them. There are billions of stars and billions of planets so it is inconceivable that we are alone. We may all be at different stages of technical knowledge due the enormous distances involved and time it takes for light to travel. We may be alone in our own galaxy but there are millions others.

Some of these other civilizations are alive in Wellingborough for sure