Please can we have a climate change topic?

Ah found it on the main site. (It's not feeding through to the iOS app which is what I was on.) As you were.

Hi Sandy

I'm afraid that it's not working for me. Where is it located?

Hi - thought people on this thread might also be interested in this. A new group just started up involving mums and dads from across the UK who are coming together to demand action to protect the children we love from climate change. Spread the word! www.facebook.com/ourkidsclimateuk/

Mums net? Maybe environmental issues instead of climate change? With a few sub headings ...
Green energy
Eco products
Renewables
Fracking

Another one who would like a climate change topic.

Yes - think that would be great.

www.frackfreeunited.org/

Launched today

You've certainly energised me to visit Ethical Living. (I'd not been there before.) If only to read the threads.

Cozie they are def linked. There will also be people wanting to protest against wind farms no doubt ... under a climate change topic! So it would be a mixed bag anyway. And there are some people who think Fracking is winderful btw...
Really we need a million topic headings! 😂
But I think a climate change or environmental issues one would be useful.

I see where you're coming from.

I guess that my thought is, though, that having such a topic distinct from Ethical Living would serve no real purpose - there might be one or two threads with posts effectively saying 'Isn't it dreadful?' And then the tumbleweeds would roll in.

Perhaps making Ethical Living more of a vehicle for/accompaniment to the issue of the future, including climate change, might be more worthwhile? Energising it a bit.

They are def linked. But for mumsnet chat purposes probably might be better if separated? :)

Yes they might. But if there was no need for the resource to be used then there surely wouldn't be such pressure to do it when opposed so bitterly? The two matters seem inextricably linked to me. Maybe my thinking is muddled though?

I agree but over consumption would def be under ethical living?
Whereas injecting chemicals under pressure into our substrata, flaring natural gas and dumping 10,000,000 gallons of frack water into the Manchester ship canal would be under environment?

That's true.

I'm just concerned that people will not seem to realise that everything boils down to over-consumption of resources. That's why I feel that a climate change board will not gain much support. Why should it?

Cozie I think you'll be able to start that under ethical living? You might find a conversation that encompasses it has already been started.
I worry about our local farming industry in Lancashire being affected by fracking.
There are no guarantees that it won't affect soil quality long term. Injecting chemicals at high pressure into the sub strata ... such a silly thing to do..

I don't think that most posters would be interested, I fear.

You're more likely to get some excitement if you started a board on, say, supermarket food availability - e.g. lettuce and salads.

I know about fracking issues but might I ask how many UK users on this thread have purposely and permanently given up their use of eg out of season vegetables and fruit? That, if it became largescale, might be more likely to have an effect.

Agreed! If fracking does take off in the way that the government want there will quite literally be thousands of wells sprouting up across the country. Experience from the USA and Australia suggests that we can expect methane contamination of drinking water, pollution of rivers and the industrialisation of some of our remaining areas of natural beauty. It's not a legacy I want to leave for my children to inherit. When people look back in a hundred years time they will wonder how on earth we let this happen.

I was aghast that a site set up by mums had nothing geared up to discuss one of the biggest threats there is to our children!

Exactly what I just said on your thread, Fracking. Hope to see you on the new topic soon.

Come on MNHQ!

Mumsnet admins. Fracking is about to hit almost every part of the UK. It's a horrible toxic industry that makes all sorts of claims which have mostly been debunked over the years. The main reason for Fracking is to create money. Money from the product and money from selling the companies.
But we now know, because we've managed to hold it off for almost 6 years... that:
It will not create that many jobs.
There will be little guaranteed extra energy security.
There will be no reduced prices.
Just a lot of misery and potential harm to our environment and wellbeing.
If it is allowed to be unleashed wholesale on us it may have as big an effect as Brexit. If you vote NO as a community you have it forced on you anyway. There is no longer real democracy in the U.K.
I feel strongly this is a topic that should be on the top of your list.
Please :)

I spent an hour looking for something like this today. I was aghast that a site set up by mums had nothing geared up to discuss one of the biggest threats there is to our children! Yes please mumsnet... a climate change and/or environmental issues topic(s) please... asap

Any progress on this please MNHQ?

As long as we can discuss the positives, and the cost/benefit analysis.

First, that's not a quote from me.
Second, perhaps you'd care to explain the irony.