global warming is real. What the deniers avoid is discussing the reasons, it is easier to deny.

Now would anyone care to identify the root cause? Global warming is the symptom.

Is is the West's profligacy ? (with others following at a rate of knots)

Or is it the size of human population? Think about it - less people, less waste, less polution.

So the answer is yes and yes. The solution to both is not possible unless you count war and pestilence - and we have that already. Increasing the cost of anything will sure focus minds.

eg How many Mudcatters repair socks? I don't. Repair knickers? I do when the elastic goes. Do you epair brooms, torn clothes, etc etc? Repair & recycle is all very well but here in the West we are wedded to the throwaway society. The items we buy are designed NOT to be repaired. If we recycled and repaired any more we would have a recession which implies more R & R, more recession, more R & R - result depression. Yoof today are not educated in R & R by and large.

Even I have to declare defeat often. I repair headphones here at Stroud FM (we are all volunteers) but most idiots would leave them broken and complain, or buy their own personal pair and guard them closer than their supply of Viagra. IE buy, -
repair ?? they can't even get started on that.