Canberra Has An Environmental Footprint

And there I agree with you bulldog…It was a bullshit article. Cheers…

Hooray for you Slinky – you are a friend to the environment. Where can a guy get a Bass legend’s autograph?

You have missed my point – I acknowledged that fact that a qualification was not terribly important for Foran’s comments, but it does raise an interesting point; I work in a Library, so does that make me a Librarian? No it doesn’t – ergo it does not entitle me to make statements about trends that I may not necessarily know much about. That is what I was asking about Foran. As for MY doctorate – it’s in Kiss my Ass, so you can choose whether to listen or not.

You do raise a fair point about cyclists – however I base my view on the fact that I have been to no other cities (I may not be as well travelled as others) that see nearly as many cyclists as we have in the ACT, and we have a comparitively small population.

Slinky – what basis do you claim that litter is more aesthetic than environmental? What bullshit – where does most of Civic’s litter end up? Lake Burley Griffin. Do I need to draw you a map as to how this will effect the waterways in and around the ACT?

As with Googong and the restrictions placed on that waterway I agree that a petrol motor in good condition will not adversely affect the water quality – however this is an example of the powers ensuring that the water supply stays as good as it is. I don’t disagree with you that it is more important to monitor the qantity, but preserving quality is important too.

To cut to the chase – whether you like my points or not – it was a bullshit article. ’nuff said.

Espresso machines, plasma tv’s, a motorvehicle based transport system, suburbs of McMansions, evaporative cooling … no shit batman

True, Big Al, however it’s not at all news that we have a footprint. It is slightly more news that it’s fairly large.

Of course we have a footprint – the thing that makes me laugh is the shit-bags who don’t understand the science – you can spot them easy enough – their the dumb-arse twits asking ‘compared to what?

That was a bullshit article. However we do use more water than Sydney, occupy more land per capita and drive to work more and further.
By the way, Foran was a CSIRO scientist at Gunghalin Homestead for 30 years. I don’t give a shit whether he was a Dr. or not (are you bulldog? If not I’ll just ignore you). He was quite the capacity of biofuels as well.
As for the rest of bulldog’s points:
-Doesn’t matter whether boats are on the water supply dam. What matters is how much we use.
-I doubt that ‘a lot of us’ cycle to work. (do a RiotAct google on “Fucking Cyclists”.
-Litter on the streets is more an aestethic problem than a large scale ecological one
-Yes, newer cars are a good points, but there is an outrageous amount of retarded 4WDs. I just downgraded to a Pulsar Hatch (6-7l/100km) and I tell you my petrol bills were never that low, while even my bass amp fits in perfectly.

You can go to this site here and test your personal environmental footprint:
http://www.myfootprint.org/
Mine was over the average (we’d need 8 x planet earth if everyone led my lifestyle apparently.)
And I recycle, eat mostly fresh food and save water. I think in Canberra the climate is one problem (we need both heating and cooling), we take a lot of flights per capita, and we live in large houses with large yards.

yeah Les, but what does it do?

Greeniology in action!

bahaha! Nice one Ari.