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Nov 06
Green Chart Let Down By Nether Regions (ITS A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!)
Its not a sexy chart to run down on Channel 4 at Christmas, but the Environment Agency’s list of the Top 100 Environmental Campaigners OF ALL TIME is nevertheless an interesting read. A few good worthies up top means you don’t even begrudge Prince Charles rocking up in the top ten, probably for the column inches. That said you wonder if desperation kicked in a bit further down the list as the following turn up:
47 St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals and ecology
53 Swampy, roads protester
89 Dalai Lama, spiritual leader
95 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, romantic poet
98 Joe Strummer, former Clash frontman
100 Father Christmas, carbon-free delivery
PROVE IT! Prove that Father Christmas’s time-defying, law of physics bending delivery mechanisms are actually carbon neutral. Surely whatever the reindeer’s are eating gets turned into methane emitting biomass, and if you work out the amount of energy required to do this extensive milk round one wonders if that’s not an excessive amount of exhaust being produced. Not to mention the toys themselves. It might be that Santa’s elves are knocking up the trad-kiddie wooden toys instead of plastics (though Father Christmas always left me some Lego) but is that wood from a sustainable forest. AT THE NORTH POLE?
In one fell swoop, the Environment Agency have made their list worthless and a laughing stock. Which is par for the course for the greens.
You missed out another one to highlight: 91 – Tom and Barbara Good from “The Good Life”
I left that one to see if anyone would read it. Indeed I wonder if the hapless Good’s did more harm than Good to their cause.
Man sows the seed
Nature grows the seed…
Check out the hot new items to hit the shelves this Christmas that I’ve found to be great gifts for the my kids or even a freind. Photokinz is a plush animal that has a digital photo frame in its belly, and i-Sing is a portable handheld Mp3 karaoke player and I just know my 11 and 9 yr old daughters are going to love them. If anyone wants to find any information on these new items you can go to http://www.itsoutrageous.com! It’s a Great Buy!