Much louder, heavier, difficult to carry, more likely for a covert operative to be fatally taken to task by the enemy over. A tank wrecked in an overnight stop is easy enough to abandon, and may be closer to repairs. One that grinds to a halt in the middle of the road is blocking the enemy’s movements. Even making…

This is really first principles stuff. Broadly speaking the use of any grinding powder in the lubrication system will wreck any internal combustion engine much more efficiently, and much more safely for the insurgent, than most of the alternatives, a fact that it might be useful to know for any readers facing the…

So have I, sadly. It’s not logical to point out the misdeeds of industry, and then turn to complete pseudoscience.

Yes, this.

That’s part of my point. I’m not filling my sink. These studies are conducted under the best possible conditions for the dishwasher, and the worst ones for hand washing.

Our record on these matters does not fill me with confidence, whether that’s landfill or incineration. More sustainable fishing means eating substantially less fish, not more. Space colonies are science fiction, not something for the foreseeable future. I haven’t been fooled by the delusions of economists and other…

As I’ve said already, those figures assume you are dumb enough that you run the tap constantly instead of filling a sink and rinsing in cold water separately. I’d need to measure it, but I doubt my sink has a capacity of 11 litres (about 3 gallons, barbarian measurement).

I’d sooner see the environment destroyed than give them up

I’ve had dysentery once. It wasn’t in this country. You accuse me of bogus arguments.

How many dishes are you washing? I mean, you might have a dozen place settings if you’re a quiverfull arsehole, but there is no way I’d fill a dishwasher unless I was only doing dishes once a week, and not even I pile them up like that. I don’t even have that many dishes.

Indeed. Scotland has a knife crime problem. Our murder rate is still light years behind that of the US. It’s next to impossible for most people to obtain a firearm, and the country is safer for it.

(See my systematic refutation of that statement elsewhere in the thread.)

Only if you are stupid enough to run the tap constantly, instead of filling the sink with hot water and doing a cold rinse.

(Thinking about it, I might have underestimated the capacity of that bowl, but even doubling it I still beat the dishwasher, and don’t have the embodied energy of the dishwasher to worry about).

Easy.

Do these studies take into account the embodied energy of the dishwasher?

Here’s an environmentally friendly idea.

Industrial monoculture of cotton is hardly an environmentally friendly practice. Again, it might be concluded that, on balance, it makes more sense to keep something out of a landfill site than to support that industry, one increasingly controlled by odious lenders and even more odious corporations. Nobody is claiming…

I’m familiar with those studies. I have not said that veganism is a perfect response (if you read what I wrote I clearly said it wasn’t). The point remains that eating lower down the food chain, on balance, tends to cause less harm and less suffering than eating higher up it.

I don’t think it’s a straw man at all. I’ve yet to hear a convincing argument in favour of eating meat. It just seems to be the default position.