Light and Fireworks

[allotmentlady]

All year we hear about global warming and how its affecting the planet.......how we can help and reduce the effects......so what do we do at Christmas and New Year,
we put up thousands of lights which are on constant for hours and for weeks and then all over the world we set off millions of pounds worth of fireworks!!!! How is this helping global warming??

Maybe the world should re-evaluate how we celebrate, after all if we dont take care of the world, it wont take care of us and every year will be worse and worse for veggie growers!

What do people think?

[PAULW]

Seeing as GW is a figment of the goverments imagination just an excuse to raise even more taxes I say light up the tree and light another rocket.

[Alison]

Ignorning what PaulW is saying and back to the original discussion, I suppose that ideally lights etc not a great plan but the LCD ones don't use much power and it is only (in most cases!) for a couple of weeks a year. More important to reduce consumption over the majority of the year.

[sharonr]

There was an article in the paper in early December about 2 neighbours who decorate the outside of their houses with lights each year. They said it cost them about £13.00 each extra a week to have ther lights on. Thats an extra £52.00 for just that month.
Also why don`t the govenment make new house`s have solar panels on them to heat their water. Is it because they get lots of money from the power companies?
I would love to have solar panels on my roof but I can`t afford them.

[terrier]

I suggest you join in PW's thread on the same subject, there's lots of comment there. Anyway, Christmas lights and fireworks are a mere drop in the ocean to what out of control global industry is doing to the planet.

[PAULW]

Mount Etna put out more carbon dioxide in one day than the whole of the cars in the british isle produce in a year.

[MaureenHall]

I like to see Christmas lights and to watch fireworks, but this year more than any other I've started to question where the money is coming from to pay for all this? Could that money be more productively used elsewhere in the community? My friends bought 4 rockets to set off at 00:01 on 1st January at a cost of £10. The spectacle lasted mere seconds. £10 could have paid for a treat of a special meal or something similar, the pleasure of which would last more than mere seconds - but which one would we remember in 6 months time?