Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-02-08 11:46:20 +0000, The Natural Philosopher said:

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:59:50 on
Fri, 8 Feb 2008, The Natural Philosopher remarked:
Indeed. If you are living in a tin shack in Soweto, and its down
near freezing, you are going to light up some coal.

The future of the planet takes second base after your own personal
survival.

We can lead by example, but what a sorry example we are setting..

Not helped by people thinking they've done everything they need to by
buying a few paper garbage sacks, a couple of CFLs, and that a Prius
has some sort of mystery negative carbon footprint.

Precisely.

I want a BEV. Probably only a couple of years away.

I want a bevvy. Probably only a couple of minutes away.



Well I had a 1/3d bottle of a very decent Chianti.

So alls not totally awry in the world.