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The UK is no better. Heavy use of aircon, constantly increasing, parents driving their children to school in SUVs/4x4s; large tv screens replacing poster boards
by surfingdino 3y ago
The UK is no better. Heavy use of aircon, constantly increasing, parents driving their children to school in SUVs/4x4s; large tv screens replacing poster boards, buildings built for the whole purpose of tv advertising (see the two-storey screen walls on the inside and outside of the Outernet buildings near Tottenham Court Road).
Lots of plastic use and one of the burger chains won the stupid award by removing drinking straws and offering a paid reusable metal drinking straw (painted) with a metal cleaning brush, sold in a cardboard box.
No matter how small the item we order online it will arrive wrapped in lots of plastic and cardboard that goes immediately to the landfill.
- hermitcrab 3y agoWe are far from perfect in the UK, for sure. But we do have a lot more solar, a lot more public transport and a lot less SUVs. And our Carbon footprint is about a third of the average American.
- fulafel 3y agoFlorida seems to have about 2x per capita CO2 emissions [1][2] so there's a fair bit of difference. UK's climate sins in oil production might swing the judgement though. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299198/co2-emissions-per-capita-united-kingdom/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299198/co2-emissions-pe... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...