To take pebbles from the beach?

[DarylDixonsHair]

Is it allowed? I'd like to put some borders around my flowers beds so need about 20 - 30 medium sized ones. I wouldn't take them all in one go, probably a handful at a time while dog walking.

Just wanted to check I'm not breaking the law/endangering the planet/taking the piss.

This really doesn't make sense on the scale we're talking. Nature redistributes stuff around naturally - leaves blow everywhere, the sea itself redistributes cliffs into pebbles. It's not like it's some finite resource. You look anywhere in history, people have used resources from other places, for their usefulness or their beauty

I suppose scale is the key thing here. The comparisons to recycling or whatever else don't make sense because using and throwing away plastic is an ongoing thing that someone who doesn't recycle would be doing every single day. Multiplied by the thousands or millions, and it's obviously a huge issue.

Do we really believe pebbles are being removed from beaches on a large enough scale to be damaging? I guess it's possible, but I don't see any evidence of it myself and I find it hard to believe. I don't know anyone who takes pebbles from beaches and I don't know anyone who ever has.

DS is never happy unless he collects a few pebbles from the beach, but wholesale it's not allowed. Also shells, leaves, flowers, weeds, .....he collects everything

If you look up "Human Causes of Coastal Erosion" on wikipedia, those people taking a stone or two from a river are up against industrial mining, dams, jetties, about the smallest thing mentioned is the movement of boats. It's just a bizarre thing to focus on, and you can't expect everything to be left in its exact place, pristine.
Why can't school children in inner cities handle stones and shells, too? Why can't people on coasts plant new trees and plants in their gardens that maybe come from several miles away?

Like I say, I'm not condoning big personal quantities, and definitely not condoning industrial works. But tiny things are just that, tiny, and they can be meaningful.

I never pick up pebbles on the beach. Or iron ore from the hillsides. Or Lithium from under the forests that go into the battery in my mobile phone.

I just get someone else to do it for me. I am totally clean...

If you look up "Human Causes of Coastal Erosion" on wikipedia, those people taking a stone or two from a river are up against industrial mining, dams, jetties, about the smallest thing mentioned is the movement of boats. It's just a bizarre thing to focus on, and you can't expect everything to be left in its exact place, pristine

Thats exactly what people say when they can't be fucked to recycle anything..."china are causing much bigger issues, my recycling bin doesn't make any difference compared to that". Same argument...just as stupid.

Do we really believe pebbles are being removed from beaches on a large enough scale to be damaging? I guess it's possible, but I don't see any evidence of it myself and I find it hard to believe

Ok I know Britain has decided that experts aren't worth listening to and everyones opinions are equal....but I'm guessing you aren't a marine expert? How would you know what the evidence is or how likely it is to be a problem? You wouldn't.
How about we listen to people who know what they are talking about, just for a change?

DS is never happy unless he collects a few pebbles from the beach, but wholesale it's not allowed. Also shells, leaves, flowers, weeds, .....he collects everything

Lock the little yob up

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/21/holidaymaker-stole-pebbles-cornwall-beach-threatened-prosecution/

I do it

Stones look nicer in my garden than on the beach anyway. Sand beaches are much nicer than pebble ones.

I actually follow a woman who makes and sells things she makes, out of pebbles and drift wood from her local beach

Eh? The amount of times my sons homework for art has been to collect pebbles along beaches and paint them etc.

@hetanom

This really doesn't make sense on the scale we're talking. Nature redistributes stuff around naturally - leaves blow everywhere, the sea itself redistributes cliffs into pebbles. It's not like it's some finite resource. You look anywhere in history, people have used resources from other places, for their usefulness or their beauty

I suppose scale is the key thing here. The comparisons to recycling or whatever else don't make sense because using and throwing away plastic is an ongoing thing that someone who doesn't recycle would be doing every single day. Multiplied by the thousands or millions, and it's obviously a huge issue.

Do we really believe pebbles are being removed from beaches on a large enough scale to be damaging? I guess it's possible, but I don't see any evidence of it myself and I find it hard to believe. I don't know anyone who takes pebbles from beaches and I don't know anyone who ever has.

But they are - unless you’re denying that coastal erosion is a thing? And if we know we can play a small part in helping that recover, why wouldn’t you?

It is the same as recycling - we recycle to help the planet. Leaving the stones alone helps the planet. Knowing that, why wouldn’t you?

Stones look nicer in my garden than on the beach anyway. Sand beaches are much nicer than pebble ones

I imagine your jewellery would look better on me, so its not a problem for you if I take it then?

@duffeldaisy

If you look up "Human Causes of Coastal Erosion" on wikipedia, those people taking a stone or two from a river are up against industrial mining, dams, jetties, about the smallest thing mentioned is the movement of boats. It's just a bizarre thing to focus on, and you can't expect everything to be left in its exact place, pristine. Why can't school children in inner cities handle stones and shells, too? Why can't people on coasts plant new trees and plants in their gardens that maybe come from several miles away?

Like I say, I'm not condoning big personal quantities, and definitely not condoning industrial works. But tiny things are just that, tiny, and they can be meaningful.

So is stopping using plastic straws. It means absolutely nothing against the grand scale of climate change. But it’s a tiny thing you can do to help, so why wouldn’t you?

It’s a weird argument to say ‘it’s fucked anyway, may as well not bother’. Do you recycle?

Who would have thought that relocating '20 - 30 medium sized pebbles' would lead so quickly to triggering the end of the world?

So is stopping using plastic straws. It means absolutely nothing against the grand scale of climate change. But it’s a tiny thing you can do to help, so why wouldn’t you?

You don't think the people laughing on this thread have stopped using plastic straws, do you?

Stones look nicer in my garden than on the beach anyway. Sand beaches are much nicer than pebble ones.

Ha ha. Behave.

@Tessiot

Rockdown

😂😂😂

@Aridane

The thread that keeps on giving 😂

You said it, this thread has me in splits 😂 But I am very sorry if anyone was seriously affected by rock lifting!

You can’t all be climate change deniers, surely.

@Pumperthepumper

You can’t all be climate change deniers, surely.

I’m sure they’re not - they’re taking the piss out of and winding up some of the more ‘earnest’ posters

Why though? It’s important and 90% of the jokes have been shit, and identical.

Why though? It’s important and 90% of the jokes have been shit, and identical

Some people like to joke around and have fun more than they like to mope around with a stick up their arse. Are you a vegan?

@hetanom

Why though? It’s important and 90% of the jokes have been shit, and identical

Some people like to joke around and have fun more than they like to mope around with a stick up their arse. Are you a vegan?

So either I say ‘yes, I’m a vegan’ and you say ‘typical preachy vegan’ or I say no, and you say I’m a hypocrite.

Are you a climate change denier?