by Tan Copsey
After last nights unsurprising, but very welcome news, that Al Gore has finally won something. I was pleased to read on Grist that in the face of allegations of mild tax-fraud the academy has greenwashed its way to climate neutrality. This follows on closely behind other pretty people who are getting themselves Global Warming Ready.
My first instinct is to celebrate this as yet another sign of that times they are a-changing, for what better way to lead pan-societal cultural change than to get popular sticks and lizard creatures driven out of their normal habitat to endorse action. However there remain massive questions about whether offsets are a useful solution. And like Dubya’s new fondness for bio-ethanol, this may be taking us in completely the wrong direction. Still at least James Longley has yet to demand a recount.
In other Enviro-news – Dick Cheney’s climate change talking points are a little stale.
My least favourite New Zealand columnist is similarly keen to recycle old arguments – though this in the face of the new news that New Zealand is going climate neutral.
Finally the aforementioned problems associated with bio-fuels are encapsulated in this somewhat frightening piece on greenstate.
‘My fellow citizens, I am using this opportunity to formally declare my intention to…..’
