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  • _Crazy_Mary__Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    Wilds wrote:
    Right. I know.


    But you need to say more. Cause otherwise you are a hypocrite.

    Show me how I'm a hypocrite. All I did was ask environmentalists how they can justify their carbon footprint. I'm not an environmentalist, so no need for me to justify. And you're not an environmentalist so you never should have answered the question.
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    Wilds wrote:
    Right. I know.


    But you need to say more. Cause otherwise you are a hypocrite.

    Show me how I'm a hypocrite. All I did was ask environmentalists how they can justify their carbon footprint. I'm not an environmentalist, so no need for me to justify. And you're not an environmentalist so you never should have answered the question.


    Fine. Then if you really cared about an honest response then you should have asked without passing judgment.

    By adding this:
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    Is it ok to destroy the planet as long as you're having fun?

    Then you are implying that those people having fun are destroying the planet. I took offense because I don't think it was a fair question and turned the question around on you.

    Sometimes when you go off topic and say something then you will be called on it. No big deal. But I don't think you can be offended that a non environmentalist responded to your question in a thread that has nothing to do with your question.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    canada. i live 40 miles from the border.
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Wilds wrote:
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    To the environmentalists in this thread:
    How do you justify the massive carbon footprint you're leaving behind as you travel from country to country? Is it ok to destroy the planet as long as you're having fun?

    I'm not an environmentalist, and I have not given any thought to my Carbon footprint. However I took trains around Europe and Asia for the most part.

    Let me ask you. If you were sailing around the world in a catamaran how would you justify the cost of getting it out of each marina.


    That is a lot of gas.... or is the fun and adventure worth, what was that, oh yeah, "destroying the planet"?

    I don't take transport.
    I walk from country to country.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • mdigenakismdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    Greece
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

    -Greg Dulli

  • uninnocent-uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    i've been to the following (not counting brief airport stops):

    -canada (ontario, quebec, nova scotia this summer)
    -united states (new york, pennsylvania, florida, nevada and technically phoenix [i crossed the road a the hoover dam])
    -cuba (varadero, havana)
    -france
    -monaco
    -italy
    -vatican city

    i think that's it.
  • PaukPauk Posts: 1,084
    Europe
    UK (England + Scotland, never been to Wales or Northern Ireland)
    Ireland
    France
    Germany
    Spain (+ Gibraltar)
    Italy (+ Vatican City)
    Poland
    Switzerland
    Austria
    Netherlands
    Belgium

    North America
    US
    Barbados

    South America
    Brazil
    Argentina
    Uruguay
    Chile
    Bolivia
    Peru
    Ecuador

    Australasia
    Australia
    New Zealand
    Paul
    '06 - London, Dublin, Reading
    '07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    '09 - London, Manchester, London
    '12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
  • IrishJamIrishJam Posts: 307
    England x 8
    USA x 8
    Spain x 11
    Scotland x 3
    France x 3
    N.Ireland
    Wales
    Belgium
    Sweden
    Italy
    Portugal
    Germany
    Czech Republic
    Greece
    Turkey
    Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam
  • icemanapicemanap Posts: 406
    Live in England.

    Been to Wales and Northern Ireland but not Scotland...

    Netherlands (Amsterdam)
    Czech Republic (Prague)
    Italy (Milan)
    Spain (Costa Brava, Costa Dorada, Tenerife, Majorca, Ibiza, Barcelona)
    USA (New York)
    Canada (Toronto and Niagara)
    Greece (Rhodes)
    Sri Lanka (Country tour)
    Singapore
    Australia for a year (WA, NT, QLD, NSW)
    New Zealand (North and South islands)
    Egypt (Luxor and Hurghada)
    :D Rock on!!!! :D
    Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    To the environmentalists in this thread:
    How do you justify the massive carbon footprint you're leaving behind as you travel from country to country? Is it ok to destroy the planet as long as you're having fun?

    i consider myself an environmentalist - flying is definitely something that is hard to rarionalize ... even tho i offset all my flights as well as my diet and energy consumption - it still really doesn't equate to not only the carbon emissions but the toxic waste related to the airiline industry ... it wasn't as bad before when i could travel for months and just make two flights but these days - if i want to visit another country - it's a flight there and back ...

    so ... when all is said and done - there is an inherent hypocrisy that at this point in time am prepared to accept in myself ...
  • SmellymanSmellyman Asia Posts: 4,524
    well you can help control all the consumption in your life, car, house, diet etc.

    but that jet will be flying with or without you. Might as well also enjoy the planet you are trying to save.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Smellyman wrote:
    well you can help control all the consumption in your life, car, house, diet etc.

    but that jet will be flying with or without you. Might as well also enjoy the planet you are trying to save.

    i believe that to be a false pretense ... if everyone else decides not to fly for the same reasons - the plane will be grounded ...
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    uninnocent- wrote:
    i've been to the following (not counting brief airport stops):

    -canada (ontario, quebec, nova scotia this summer)
    -united states (new york, pennsylvania, florida, nevada and technically phoenix [i crossed the road a the hoover dam])
    -cuba (varadero, havana)
    -france
    -monaco
    -italy
    -vatican city

    i think that's it.
    Psst.....Phoenix is a city....Arizona is the state's name that you were looking for.... :twisted:
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Canada~Ontario x2 and Nova Scotia
    Mexico
    Grand Cayman
    St. Martin
    Costa Rica
    U.S.A.~26 states and the District of Columbia
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • SmellymanSmellyman Asia Posts: 4,524
    polaris_x wrote:
    Smellyman wrote:
    well you can help control all the consumption in your life, car, house, diet etc.

    but that jet will be flying with or without you. Might as well also enjoy the planet you are trying to save.

    i believe that to be a false pretense ... if everyone else decides not to fly for the same reasons - the plane will be grounded ...

    that will never happen though
  • Vicky_ArgVicky_Arg Posts: 64
    I am very lucky, i ve been in these countries. but i am thread for Irland and USA. Would like to meet Australia.

    USA (twice and whant to go a third one)
    UK
    Irland
    China
    Brasil
    Uruguay
    Paraguay
    MExico
    Spain (living here since 2002)
    Argentina (born there)
    France
    Italy (obligatory)
    "Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." JLB.
  • craigbcraigb Posts: 806
    USA
    El Salvador
    Costa Rica
    Panama
    Mexico
    San Francisco :D
    "Speak clearly if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall"

    Los Angeles 10.7.2009
  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    Canada
    England
    Germany
    France
    Switzerland
    Prague
    Netherlands
    Spain
    Italy
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    patrickredeyes wrote:
    Prague

    where is this country??? i have been to Prague the city, but never been to Prague the country :lol:
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

    I wave to all my Friends... Yeah!
  • katelliskatellis Posts: 526
    lol @ the last post.

    ive been to ..
    usa
    canada
    bahamas
    croatia
    slovenia
    bosnia
    uk (england and scotland)

    looking to take another overseas trip next summer. either more european backpacking or maybe japan if we can afford it.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    edited September 2009
    England
    Wales
    Ireland
    France
    Holland
    Belgium
    Finland
    Estonia
    Germany
    Bulgaria
    Austria
    Yugoslavia
    Czechoslovakia
    Turkey
    Cyprus
    Egypt
    Spain
    Italy
    America
    Canada
    India
    South Korea
    Japan
    China & Hong Kong


    Edit: I plan to go traveling in 2011 - Trans-Siberian Express from Beijing to London via Mongolia, Russia, & Poland, Japan 3 months, South America 3 or 4 months, and South Aisa 3 or 4 months. I should notch up a few more points then :P

    2nd Edit: I can't believe I managed to spell Czechoslovakia right before I checked it. :ugeek:
    Post edited by Byrnzie on
  • katelliskatellis Posts: 526
    what cities in yugoslavia did you visit, byrnzie?
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    katellis wrote:
    what cities in yugoslavia did you visit, byrnzie?

    We drove through it from North West to South East, and stopped in Sarajevo for the afternoon. This was in 1988, a few years before the war.
  • katelliskatellis Posts: 526
    very cool. sarajevo is one of my fave places ive ever visited.

    edit: i was there after the war. it is a beautiful city, and definitely coming back, but i would have liked to see how it looked before all the devastation.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    katellis wrote:
    very cool. sarajevo is one of my fave places ive ever visited.

    My friends Dad is Turkish and he drove us from London, England to the Turkish side of Cyprus.
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    hey Byrnzie, was Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia when you were there, or was in the Czech Republic and Slovakia?
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

    I wave to all my Friends... Yeah!
  • sourdough09sourdough09 Posts: 37
    Canada
    USA
    Mexico
    England
    France
    Belgium
    Germany
    Switzerland
    Italy
    Greece
    Vatican City
    Monaco
    Spain
    South Africa
    Netherlands
    Czech Republic
    Austria
    Hungary
    Uganda
    Rwanda
    Zambia
    Botswana
    Namibia
    Zimbabwe
    Mozambique
    Malawi
    Tanzania

    I might have an addiction.
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    sourdough09 wrote:
    I might have an addiction.

    nothing wrong with that 8-)
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

    I wave to all my Friends... Yeah!
  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    vedder_soup wrote:
    patrickredeyes wrote:
    Prague

    where is this country??? i have been to Prague the city, but never been to Prague the country :lol:


    Oh whatever it was a mistake.......BITE ME ;)
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    vedder_soup wrote:
    hey Byrnzie, was Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia when you were there, or was in the Czech Republic and Slovakia?

    I was there in 1993 so I think it had just become the Czech Rep.
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