Climate campaigners in Washington
20/05/09 23:09 Filed in: Personal
Newsnight ran an amusing (for me) story about campaigners in the US marching on Washington.
Now their main target was coal, which isn’t the cleanest of fuels to burn.
But what amused me most was that they arrived by car and they were all dressed from head to foot in man-made fibres. All derived from oil. Not to mention the plastic hard hats, loud speakers, laptop computers and mobile phones. So it’s a sort of “OK for them, not for others” kind of march.
Then “ethical man” took a trip to Texas at 55 mph on a train that only reduced his carbon footprint by 18%. Eeeek
Now their main target was coal, which isn’t the cleanest of fuels to burn.
But what amused me most was that they arrived by car and they were all dressed from head to foot in man-made fibres. All derived from oil. Not to mention the plastic hard hats, loud speakers, laptop computers and mobile phones. So it’s a sort of “OK for them, not for others” kind of march.
Then “ethical man” took a trip to Texas at 55 mph on a train that only reduced his carbon footprint by 18%. Eeeek
