Trending in EU: Irish flag burning in Northern Ireland during 12th of July celebrations https://t.co/FTQfGhWivH pic.twitter.com/xHew0RuErw
— EU Travels (@fop2014) July 14, 2021
Um.
Barry LFC asks:
Is the Irish flag the only flag in the world that can be openly burned with any uproar from the media?
Anyone?
Bonfire tradition continues amid post-Brexit tensions (CNN)
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In fairness we are subjected to relentless wall to wall outrage over flag burnings from the media.
Also, no problem getting pallets… even with the protocol lots to be stolen out of the ports…
I doubt if those ‘donations’ are by choice.
I’d say their backs are strained something fierce from unloading all the sausages off them too
Let’s move the 12th of July towards Carbon Neutrality
very good rapscallion. i chuckled at that.
Burning wood is carbon neutral.
Not really, unfortunately.
how so?
When a tree grows it extracts carbons from the air; when it is burnt it returns the carbon. It is neutral (over the life-span of the tree – which for pine would by 25-30years).
The problem with carbon is we are burning fossil fuels where the carbon was extracted 66-300 million years ago.
A number of reasons. Biomass (ie wood in a variety of forms) generally emits more carbon when burned than other fossil fuels. Replacing the mature trees you’ve harvested with young growth takes decades to balance out, if it balances at all, so at this point you’re just putting more carbon into the atmosphere faster than you’re even theoretically replacing it via new trees at a time when climate change is starting to ramp up. The harvesting emits carbon and damages soil. Intensive monoculture factory forests are death to biodiversity. It’s a whole rather depressing thing. Some people use industrial waste from factories that make things with wood, that’s actually ok, but limited.
And someone below invoked the Cash For Ash scheme – greenwashing is rampant.
You forgot the energy it takes to make and transplate the palletts. So not carbon neutral.
Yes, an entire arboretum is planted in every Loyalist area post-bonfire…
in fairness:
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/twelfth-2021-dup-leader-sir-jeffrey-condemns-bonfire-burning-of-irish-tricolour-and-election-posters-40642635.html
After the fact. In fairness. Happens every year.
Yes Barry, we are uniquely picked upon. There, there.
They must have made a fortune out of the Cash for Ash scheme
That is some kkkulture.
No Barry. It’s not.
I’m always puzzled as to what other countries in Europe and indeed the world have a ‘marching season’