"Mike" wrote in message
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> "William Black" wrote:
>
>>If you live somewhere, anywhere, more than about 50 miles north of
>>London
>>then Stanstead is significantly easier to get to.
>
> Its easier to get to stanstead than Heathrow for me and I'm in London!
> Everybody is saying we have to cut greenhouse gasses etc, the world
> population is set to double by 2040 and when it comes to other real
> world issues like not expanding flying, nobody really says enough is
> enough and we have to stop, competing with other countries always wins
> over the environment. so why should I bother what sort of car I drive?
> (or taking the train/bus to the airport instead - the ultimate piece
> of environmental self delusion).
>
> It seems pointless. What point a "clean" car engine if hundreds more
> jumbos (of which theres no such thing as low or zero emission
> versions) are thundering overhead making everybodys life a misery so
> we can fly off to ever more improbable places even more often?
And that concludes today's sermon...
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
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