Convictions, meet courage
I have a terrible habit of eavesdropping. On Saturday j4 and I went to a climate change protest at Kingsnorth power station. The demonstration was good-humoured and peaceful, so The Times had to raid their picture library for a stock photo of riot police in action.
We took the hired coach back to Oxford and overheard two young men behind us, fresh from the protest, discussing how to find cheap flights to Las Vegas and the cost of internal flights once they'd got there. FAIL. So how did I challenge them? I didn't say a word. I concentrated on devising excuses: it's rude to eavesdrop, I was missing the joke, choose the bigger battles.
In the interests of Parliamentary full disclosure, here are my CO2 emissions for the last twelve months. This doesn't take into account the computer in my office, or the trains we took on honeymoon, or anything other than the energy we use in our flat.
Even if all of that were added to my account, my carbon footprint would still be smaller than Bono's. So will he single-handedly replace China as an excuse for inaction?
We took the hired coach back to Oxford and overheard two young men behind us, fresh from the protest, discussing how to find cheap flights to Las Vegas and the cost of internal flights once they'd got there. FAIL. So how did I challenge them? I didn't say a word. I concentrated on devising excuses: it's rude to eavesdrop, I was missing the joke, choose the bigger battles.
In the interests of Parliamentary full disclosure, here are my CO2 emissions for the last twelve months. This doesn't take into account the computer in my office, or the trains we took on honeymoon, or anything other than the energy we use in our flat.
Even if all of that were added to my account, my carbon footprint would still be smaller than Bono's. So will he single-handedly replace China as an excuse for inaction?