Simon Tindale, head of Greenpeace, is interviewed in the Guardian. Nice part here:
That’s next, says
Tindale, now playing with a red, orange and yellow stress ball. "It’s
tough. January in England is not fun and if you’re saying to people you
can fly to the Caribbean for a not unextortionate amount of money …"
For some years he and his family have not taken one flight for leisure
(he still has to fly, ironically, for Greenpeace). They holiday in
England, taking the train, indulging his great passion, hillwalking.
Next week he will climb to the top of Sugarloaf mountain near
Aber-gavenny with his five-year-old. "Basically the equation should be
that people who are taking environmentally damaging forms of transport
ie air travel and road travel should be paying the full costs and
people who are taking environmentally pretty benign forms of travel,
like rail, should be paying less. We’ve got to find ways of making that
transfer work."
Ah, isn’t that sweet, eh? He denies himself to make the planet better for all of us. Unfortunately, the following is true:
A recent report by Lancaster University shows that in terms of fuel efficiency cars, yes, cars are the most efficient form of transport in the UK.
"I know this will generate howls of protest, but at
present a family of four going by car is about as environmentally
friendly as you can get."
It gets worse for the eco-warriors. Trains are even less fuel efficient than short haul aircraft.
Friends of The Earth expressed surprise at the findings, which it said were not in line with previous studies.
The man’s an ass, a complete twit.
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