Jul/070
The Carbon Jack-boot
I listen to a lot of Radio 4 while I work, and I've been working a lot. Lately I've noticed the phrase 'carbon footprint' much more. Everything I listen to has some arsehole banging on about the evils of cheap flights, food packaging, energy waste, blah blah blah.
Now it's not that I'm against changing the way we live & addressing global warming or anything like that. Quite the opposite - my personal impact on the environment is considered and as small as I can be bothered to make it right now. It will become more so as I get older.
What bothers me is the way that the media jack-boot is starting to stamp down on the face of our collective attitude and change it with such ease. In no time at all only chavs will talk openly about flying on easyjet, drink bottled water in public or buy vegetables grown in Africa because they're cheaper and look better. The rest of us will add these things to our growing list of dirty little secrets.
Of course it's a good thing, that's why it takes hold so quickly. It's just so depressingly predictable. People are such sheep. Not because they follow the herd around blindly. But because they bleat on and on. And on.
So I designed a T-shirt. Perhaps I can get expedia to sponsor a competition here on the blog. The first person to send me a picture of them wearing this t-shirt whilst sitting in a Hummer could win an all expenses paid trip to the arctic for a relaxing week of watching ice melt.
