Whilst on the long drive up to Dunfirmline for an event on Monday, I listened to Radio 2. This is a hangover from when I used to do a bit of HGV driving, I liked the traffic reports on the station and the talk shows. The main topic of conversation this particular day was the protest at Stansted airport. A young lady from the group Plane Stupid appeared on the Jeremy Vine show. During the conversation it came out that next week she is taking her Grandmother on a long train journey for her birthday. When the presenter asked if the train journey contributed to global warming the lady in question retorted that "Everyone is entitled to a holiday". I wonder how many of the people at Stansted will now end up missing theirs because of the action taken by this group.
Then again the young lady may be travelling on a new top secret super duper non CO2 emitting train that the rest of us have not heard about yet. Quite possibly it is the same train that the protesters used to travel to Stansted for their protest. This is the problem with groups like this, they seem to belong to the George Orwell Animal Farm club, with their don't do as we do, but do as we say ethos. They don't agree with using anything that emits greenhouse gas, unless it suits their purpose of being transported to a protest site, (or taking one's Grandmother on holiday). Equally I don't doubt that the said young ladies in the group will quite happily wear cosmetics made from petroleum byproducts, and no doubt fashionable clothing produced in third world countries and shipped from the other side of the world to stores in this country. Perhaps if members of groups like this actually had to work for a living rather than sit back and let the government pay them for doing nothing, they would have little time left for their grandstanding, and decent law abiding hard working folk would be able to get to their holidays/business meetings etc on time. A Scottish friend of mind had the best idea, "Hose them down with water, its freezing at the minute and I bet they wouldn't stay too long then!"
Before the green Gestapo jump down my throat, I am not saying there isn't a problem with global warming, and I am not saying we don't need urgent action. In fact we are one of the very few funfair companies that is actually taking active steps to promote green practices throughout the industry. What I am saying is let he or she who is without sin cast the first stone. When these protesters lead by example and tell their Grandmothers that they can't take them on holiday by train due to global warming, then they might just be speaking from the moral high ground, rather than trying to disrupt and control the lives of others.
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Then again the young lady may be travelling on a new top secret super duper non CO2 emitting train that the rest of us have not heard about yet. Quite possibly it is the same train that the protesters used to travel to Stansted for their protest. This is the problem with groups like this, they seem to belong to the George Orwell Animal Farm club, with their don't do as we do, but do as we say ethos. They don't agree with using anything that emits greenhouse gas, unless it suits their purpose of being transported to a protest site, (or taking one's Grandmother on holiday). Equally I don't doubt that the said young ladies in the group will quite happily wear cosmetics made from petroleum byproducts, and no doubt fashionable clothing produced in third world countries and shipped from the other side of the world to stores in this country. Perhaps if members of groups like this actually had to work for a living rather than sit back and let the government pay them for doing nothing, they would have little time left for their grandstanding, and decent law abiding hard working folk would be able to get to their holidays/business meetings etc on time. A Scottish friend of mind had the best idea, "Hose them down with water, its freezing at the minute and I bet they wouldn't stay too long then!"
Before the green Gestapo jump down my throat, I am not saying there isn't a problem with global warming, and I am not saying we don't need urgent action. In fact we are one of the very few funfair companies that is actually taking active steps to promote green practices throughout the industry. What I am saying is let he or she who is without sin cast the first stone. When these protesters lead by example and tell their Grandmothers that they can't take them on holiday by train due to global warming, then they might just be speaking from the moral high ground, rather than trying to disrupt and control the lives of others.
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