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OK its Virgin day today

Thought this was worth a mention is may at least spur some clever people into thinking about a solution for our current climate change problems

BBC News article
Virgin Earth Challenge

Interesting lets see if the politicians listen . T

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:....Thought this was worth a mention is may at least spur some clever people into thinking about a solution for our current climate change problems

OK, I've had a long think about how to remove excess CO2 and have come up with a few suggestions...

1) On a local level, every house is provided with a CO2 extractor, so they can make their own fizzy drinks...Humans drink it and the CO2 is converted via the human gut....

2) On a town/city level, every night just after midnight a siren signals everyone to get off the street and a huge sponge descends on the town/city, soaking up all the CO2 and other gases. Then inside the sponge there are loads of plants that gobble up the CO2 giving off pure oxygen - as a useful by-product, the town gets cleaned and the streets are safer.

3) On a country level, on each continent, one country is nominated and everyone leaves and moves to another country, planting plants and trees in their place. After ten years, the amount of forests and jungle that has grown is enough to scrub the atmosphere of any CO2.

So, at a loss of maybe five countrys, we'd have 5 huge area's of natural CO2 absorbing plants, woodland and forests.

4) On a planet level, humans destroy all the structures they've built, then go an a manic 96 hour murdering spree, at the end of which, there's only one human left. The planet can support a single human life and so, over the next 50 years, the planet slowly recovers to allow the next intelligent mammal to become the dominant life on the planet.

Attn: Mr Branson. My bank account details for the $25 million are:.....

regards,

Tim

Tim




Tom Dick `N` Harry.

UBT - Timbo wrote: 3) On a country level, on each continent, one country is nominated and everyone leaves and moves to another country, planting plants and trees in their place. After ten years, the amount of forests and jungle that has grown is enough to scrub the atmosphere of any CO2.

So, at a loss of maybe five countrys, we'd have 5 huge area's of natural CO2 absorbing plants, woodland and forests.

Do we get to vote on which 5 'get it'?

Chris.

UBT - Chris Suddick wrote:Do we get to vote on which 5 'get it'?

Chris.

ABSOLUTELY.....The government of UBT has already been set up (former members of our forum on Yahoo have already been appointed) and a vote will be held....but only after we have had representations from all countries of the world - who will be invited to attend a conference and fact-finding missions to said countries will be undertaken at huge personal sacrifice.....

Once all UBT Ministers have reported back, probably in about 3 years time (after our return from our world-wide tour)....then the vote will be taken.

Of course ALL bribes and donations will be noted and these will be fully taken into account....

regards

Tim (Prime Minister - sorry - I bagged that one first !!)