Save The World With Wwf Hypocrysy

[Theland]

Advertisement on TV from WWF urging us to save the world. But it is only poor people who can make a difference, at least in this country.

Are YOU going to leave your car at home and walk or take the bus?

Will you cancel your holiday by plane, polluting the atmosphere?

Will you clothe yourself from charity shops as clothes cost energy?

The list goes on. Poor people save the planet every day, by NOT consuming, and using up the worlds finite resources. They have no choice.

Preaching to the less well off must make the middle classes feel good, as they drive their cars to another meeting, and cancel a meeting as they are flying off to the sun.

So are you a hypocrite?

[Mamyalynne]

I'm not a hypocrite as I've never made any great claims - however , from the list you mention.

I don't drive or own a car any longer.

I don't fly.

I love a charity shop bargain and donate back all the time.

We do what is within our capabilities.

[Theland]

Mamya - Love ya!

[vetuste_ennemi]

//I don't fly//

Thanks for that, Mamya. I never really believed the broomstick rumours and am embarrassed that I ever gave them the slightest credence.

PS: what TV ad was that? My wife and I have been regular supporters of WWF along with many other wild life and conservation charities for decades. Well sipped off to see the saintly David Attenborough at Davos telling the advanced world to give up on technology and revert to crop rotation, and, worse, telling the third world to stick to lighting fire withh a twirling stick and a bit of moss.

[Calicogirl]

We do drive, we do fly, that's unavoidable for us, but we are environmentally friendly in terms of heating, eating, recycling, general living. We donate to thrift shops etc and often buy second hand and support charities that assist the environment. It's actually surprisingly expensive to live eco friendly, so the argument that poor people don't contribute but only rich people do is a little inaccurate and I feel unfair, not everyone has choices and sometimes the cheaper choice is the less eco friendly.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The PS to you, Theland.

[Theland]

Watching Sky News and it popped up at half time. Horror plastic stories etc. "We can do it!"
A cry to rally the troops.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Plastic pollutes; carbon dioxide does not. Is that the story?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Happy with the plastic destroying things ad if that is all it is. Don't want to see another charity taken over by anti-capitalists.

[Theland]

CO2 - Greenhouse gas?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Greenhouse? Yes. It makes things grow, Theland.

[Theland]

Oh well, nothing to worry about.
Must tell the Polar Bears not to panic.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I won't bore you with a list of charities I subscribe to regularly, Theland. But those charities are concerned about (amongst other things) polar bears, whales and dolphins, oak trees, Amur leopards and people dying of cancer.

Impoverishing the "heavy polluting" societies by replacing efficient energy sources like nuclear power or coal with things made out of steel, manufactured in and transported from China, and with many moving parts, and stuck in hostile environments like hillsides and the North Sea, and and subject to capricious forces of nature like wind, tides and sunshine, may not be the best way to help the polar bear or any other beast.

[Theland]

Point taken. What is your answer?

[vetuste_ennemi]

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[vetuste_ennemi]

PS: I have a serious answer as well, Theland. But at this time of night I'm catching up on the news channels and the interesting stuff I've recorded, kicking the cats and drinking.

A very good night old sir.

[Theland]

:-) Doing my bit to save the planet now. Switch lights off and off to bed and cuddle up to my cat. Goodnight.

[Mamyalynne]

I have a cordless vac now,broomsticck has been redeployed.

[naomi24]

Veritable martyrs, the poor.