The Guardian gets stuck into the UK's Labour party over its failure to tow the green line, using The Sustainable Development Commission's as its catalyst:
Government operations across Whitehall are "simply not good enough" the report says, and ministers and senior civil servants are failing to set the right example. Sir Jonathan Porritt, head of the commission, said: "I have no doubt that people will see this as hypocrisy on their part."
Ouch, you mean someone that confesses their eco-sins to Gaia can still be hypocritical?
On departmental cuts in carbon emissions the report says: "A drastic change in approach is essential for government to have any hope of meeting its targets. And all this against a background of endless government messages indicating strong support for climate change initiatives. Unless government can quickly take charge of its own operations it risks breeding deep cynicism among the public."
Maybe, so. But what does this mean for Big Al Goracle?
The press release went on to say, according to the Nashville Electricity Service, Gore's 20-room, 8-bathroom home "devoured" nearly 221,000kWh per year, more than 20 times the national household average. His average monthly bill topped $1,359, the report said.
Don't worry, unlike the Labour Government, Al buys 'carbon offsets', you know, those cash confessionals you fork out nominal fees for so that we can plant some more trees somewhere, like Al's livingroom perhaps. Sure, trees store carbon, only problem is that when they die (believe it or not, they all actually do), all of that stored carbon has to go somewhere:
As Prof. Oliver Rackham, the Cambridge botanist and author, says: "Telling people to plant trees is like telling them to drink more water to keep down rising sea levels." What goes in will come out.
And so Al's precious hard-earned has gone to waste - or has it? Who does Al buy his carbon offsets from?
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