The end of the world is nigh - yeah in about 10 billion years time when the sun runs out of hydrogen and becomes a red giant.
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Ah, but that is assuming some ruddy great Armageddon asteroid out there is not on a collision course with earth 
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True but I expect someone would send up a bloody great nuclear bomb to nuke it before it got anywhere near Earth. Thereâs no stopping the sun running out of fuel.
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I was half right. 
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Sorry to be picky, but the pandemic was developed by China - nothing to do with the planet fighting back. Sadly, few will lay the blame on China as we all appear to be reliant on them so for whatever time we have left on this planet, it would be good to buy as few products made in China as possible!
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Itâs simple maths. about 8 billion people on the planet, North Yorkshire is 8600sq km, multiply that by 1000000 = 8,600,000,000 sq m = tons of room for everybody. Then all you need is five loaves and a couple of fish.
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My maths are more simple, they involve predecessors and days. 
Good luck with that!
Perhaps you take too much notice of the news, Muddy. I donât have a TV, and I only listen to the radio when Iâm driving. I have never read newspapers. I donât have a clue about whatâs happening in the world unless I inadvertently see it here, or somewhere similar. I just go about my life in ignorance of most of the things that everybody seems to get all worked up about. These world problems just come and go without me knowing about most of them, and nothing really changes much for me. The world, or what I see of it, just keeps turning pretty much the same as itâs always done. In the great scheme of things, the era we are living through now is no more worrying or dangerous than past eras, itâs just that we can only experience our own.
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Every little helps - better than a defeatist attitude. I donât suppose youâre going to rollover and welcome the chinks into Oz any time soon? If every country reduced their consumption of Chinese products - China would notice itâŠbut it wouldnât be overtly significant enough for retaliation (hopefully).
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Australia runs a massive trade surplus with China, We export $10 billion more goods to China than we import from them. How is that defeatist?
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Excellent but shame youâre dependent on them for your exports. I distrust and dislike the Chinese more than any other nation and suspect they will take offensive action pretty soon.
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Unfortunately for the UK consumer, many so called UK manufacturers have dedicated agreements for their âbrandedâ goods to be made in China and where âMade in Chinaâ used to be declared somewhere on the packaging, this is no longer general practice. Even those good that are either part or fully assembled in the UK still use components made in China.
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@LongDriver , Not only UK manufacturers LD, US and EU
companies are doing the same !!
I donât know what the answer is to this?
It seems like your country comes second one days, and profits first !
Donkeyman! 
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There never will be an answer unless government legislate that the county of origin MUST be displayed on all retail products sold in the UK. That will never happen due to all the huge money involved in the retail trade.
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It does no harm to try and find products which are made wholly in the UK. I joined a BUY BRITISH group on Facebook after finding it almost impossible to buy a British made Christmas Card. ALL cards sold at Clinton Cards Shops are from China! I found only ONE British company which produced Christmas Cards and they are Elle Media Group in Essex who sell through the Heritage Press - they have a FB page and I think you can buy direct, though they also use Amazon (which is sad!). Note: Most Charity Christmas Cards are also from China - avoid!
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Yes. Annoying isnât it? To find a product which is wholly British made you need to write to the MD of the company producing the product.
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