Is our lifestyle worth the price we pay in ill health?

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In about 30 years time, the place will be teeming with old people shuffling are like zombies. The slow type.
I can't see the point of living so long, (85+) if there is no quality of life. Anytime 75+ will do me.
As far as the environment slowly killing us is concerned, the local authority had me working with asbestos type materials, fibre glass type materials, all without any protection and lifting massively heavy weights. Theres always be something trying to kill you.
 
Doesn’t necessarily follow the thread content as much as the thread title but I always love this from the Dally

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:

“Man.
Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
 
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r@mside said:
Care to clarify who 'we' are?

It's big problem in Asia but not aware that we need to be thinking about wearing anti-pollution masks.
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It’s a big problem in Asia because we’ve transferred all the manufacturing of product over there.
We sit in our carbon neutral bubble (not quite) priding ourselves on how good we are whilst buying everything in from the smog infested counties we tut tut at
 
Billy Fish said:
It’s a big problem in Asia because we’ve transferred all the manufacturing of product over there.
We sit in our carbon neutral bubble (not quite) priding ourselves on how good we are whilst buying everything in from the smog infested counties we tut tut at
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Effectively this, the west as a whole being quite smug about any changes we make all the while knowing all we’ve done is export our bad practices to some far flung corner of the earth
 
100 years ago, I’d have been a proper smoker - along with almost everyone else - and probably within the last ten years of life expectancy. I’m 40 now.
 
Billy Fish said:
It’s a big problem in Asia because we’ve transferred all the manufacturing of product over there.
We sit in our carbon neutral bubble (not quite) priding ourselves on how good we are whilst buying everything in from the smog infested counties we tut tut at
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Kinda my point. We're no longer paying the price.

I think the condescending attitudes to the rest of the world are starting to change, albeit quite slowly.
 
r@mside said:
Care to clarify who 'we' are?

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Latest data shows two million Londoners living with illegal toxic air

Marty Moose said:
Too many clueless old fucks bumbling through society as it is. Enjoy life and hop off sharpish before you become a burden. I'd have a logan's run society, especially when I'm stuck behind a shuffling old bastard in a supermarket, or tootling down the road at 18mph in a powder blue nissan micra.
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It's people like yourself we'd be better shot of imo.

Billy Fish said:
Doesn’t necessarily follow the thread content as much as the thread title but I always love this from the Dally

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:

“Man.
Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
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It's the best saying of all time that :lol:
 
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Marty Moose said:
Too many clueless old fucks bumbling through society as it is. Enjoy life and hop off sharpish before you become a burden. I'd have a logan's run society, especially when I'm stuck behind a shuffling old bastard in a supermarket, or tootling down the road at 18mph in a powder blue nissan micra.
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I can't wait to retire, I will get up at 0700 and drive round at 20mph making every fucker late for work
 
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