Jul 07 2007
Pop concerts to save the planet?
No wonder 56% of people do not believe the so called consensus about climate change, and think litter and dog mess are more pressing environmental problems that affect their daily lives. Al Gore has made a huge mistake trying to harness the pop industry to his cause in the naive hope it will popularise it. It has instead fuelled much debate about the huge carbon emissions from many of the pop stars who will jet in to perform and jet out again.
The politicians find it difficult to persaude people, because their lifestyles are far from eco friendly. Politicians trying to gain popualirty through association with usually popular pop stars is risible, as in this rspect the pop stars are even worse than the politicians. They both have huge carbon footprints, and have both just put their feet in it again.
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
Send this item to Cameron who seems to be as enthralled with Gore as he was with Blair. Gore’s domestic energy consumption is reported to be 20 times that of the average home in the USA and when asked to pledge to reduce this to the average within one year, at the US Senate Environment Committee meeting in March this year, he refused. Politicians offset their emissions at the taxpayers’ expense. Gore buys carbon offsets from Generation Investment Management LLC, a tax-exempt organisation, whose chairman and founding partner just happens to be a certain Al Gore!
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Yes Brian, I’ve heard Al Gore has his fingers in the offsetting pie. I think it’s a scam. I’ve also heard rumours that they don’t actually plant the trees, they approach forestry managers and offer them about 50p per tree for the right to sell them on at around a tenner each to people who want to ‘offset’.
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