https://friendsofretha.org/members/planetwatcher/activity/ Activity feed for Planet Watcher. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:49:52 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 2beef0eab277b6e72a4b2990624f75a0 https://friendsofretha.org/forums/topic/marine-litter/#post-13466 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:16:33 +0100 Yes, you’re right. But legislation will only address the problem and not the cause… which is too many people producing too much waste.

]]> ad7494b7ac7ef27fb6a7509faed18830 https://friendsofretha.org/forums/topic/countries-with-highest-co2-emissions/#post-13467 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:31:15 +0100 This is very true. China manufactures for much of the world, because it can do so cheaply. Manufacturing is one of the primary causes of CO2 emissions, but there are really two issues here. Firstly there are too many of us. Secondly, most us live our lives constantly upgrading old for new. We consume too much. This both increases waste (the old…[Read more]

]]> a4ddebe5d6f54bc64c4f8eeddfc5b8a9 https://friendsofretha.org/forums/topic/rising-ocean-temperatures/#post-13487 Sun, 04 Jun 2023 10:24:19 +0100 Ocean temperatures are a barometer for the general state of the environment globally. Stabilising ocean temperatures is critical over the next few decades. If we can do that and begin to gradually reduce human population, it may be possible to turn things around. Trying is the minimum we should do.

]]> 07817b22c56523dcc97a8bac504fbf9d https://friendsofretha.org/forums/topic/most-densely-populated-cities/#post-13493 Wed, 31 May 2023 14:04:16 +0100 43 megacities by 2030… that’s half a billion people living in just 43 cities! I’ll take a cottage in the countryside thank you very much.

]]> f9a3c9c4b9f55a2068ad5cb4c6c81a24 https://friendsofretha.org/topic/russian-oil-and-gas/ Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:29:40 +0100 If Russia’s war against Ukraine has highlighted anything (apart from how terrible this is for the Ukraine people), it’s how dangerously reliant some countries are on Russia’s oil and gas supplies. There are too many people still using too much fossil fuel energy.

]]> 77e326472bde4063de0258bdfb909fe2 https://friendsofretha.org/activity/p/27/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:39:51 +0000 0 f66b4c30a09b52ecc2646bd34c7cd800 https://friendsofretha.org/activity/p/26/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:38:33 +0000 0 03832a49ef6f87bd0c925d4a74b67ad8 https://friendsofretha.org/activity/p/24/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:37:25 +0000 0