JC has donkeys that he adores, so his roses will be burgeoning already.
tinyurl.com/clarksonsdonkeys
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I suspect he's delighted. It's free publicity, and also a perfect excuse for him to rant more about how he thinks more that people who don't scoff at climate change are bad as well as mad.
However, a pile of manure is a rather lame form of direct action. Pity they couldn't think up a better stunt.
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Pity they couldn't think up a better stunt.
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Now now!
Never mind your next move to a small holding in Ireland, but how do folk that have ordinary jobs like me (Builder) go about reducing their carbon footprint or whatever it is called. A reduction yes where 'possible', but we have been so socially engineered that we are working our bits off to keep body and soul together so we need vehicles. We need to eat, but have no time to grow our own so sainsco.com need to keep lorries on the road. What our Master's want us mere mortals to achieve is chuffing impossible.
I genuinely wish you well.
MD
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Never mind your next move to a small holding in Ireland but how do folk that have ordinary jobs like me (Builder) go about reducing their carbon footprint or whatever it is called. A reduction yes where 'possible' but we have been so socially engineered that we are working our bits off to keep body and soul together so we need vehicles.
Martin, I think you're right to point out that part of the problem is socially created, and that's why I argue that a lot of it needs social solutions. It's not enough to persuade an individual of the merits of using buses if there are no buses, or to walk more if services are too dispersed, or to cycle if that means dodging between juggernauts.
However, there are things we can do to reduce our impact as individuals, even if those wider social issues aren't resolved. Driving fewer miles where possible, driving efficiently, and choosing more efficient vehicles. The reason I think that Clarkson is a fair target for protests is that he makes his money by encouraging people to go in the opposite direction, and to make the environmental problems worse.
I know that his show is mostly entertainment (and it's very successful entertainment), but a key part of Clarkson's act is enthusing the virtues of individual choices without social or environmental responsibility.
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>However, a pile of manure is a rather lame form of direct action. Pity they couldn't think up a better stunt.
Absolutely. They just made themselves look like idiots.
>he makes his money by encouraging people to go in the opposite direction, and to make the
>environmental problems worse.
Do you honestly believe that people who watch Top Gear are going out and swapping their Mondeos for a Zonda because Clarkson likes 'em?
>I know that his show is mostly entertainment..
And viewers who can't recognise his deliberate wind-ups of the eco warriers should have their TVs taken off them. There are far worse programs masquerading as entertainment.
Kevin...
PS. I'd love some free horse manure. The soil here needs it.
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We are working our bits off to keep body and soul together
I don't doubt it for a moment, MD, but it has always amazed me when chatting with our joiner/carpenter how far he is prepared to travel to a job - it must use up valuable 'work' time as well as increasing running cost and overheads. He isn't a casual joiner on short contract, he runs his own small business. That said, he makes enough to indulge his liking for Jaguars (motoring connection).
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