From an Elizabeth Straker on the BBC's Web site: "I just don't want to be "green". I don't want to be told how I can heat my house, drive my car, take my holidays, get rid of my rubbish or what to buy. I won't be influenced by campaigns and I would never voluntarily pay any "green" tax. I am not the slightest bit interested in what happens to the world in a couple of hundred years time nor, to be honest, what happens on the other side of it now."
(see here)
Good for you, Elizabeth. At least you're honest, unlike those that think six billion people can have no effect on the world around them (these are the same people who first denied global warming was happening and now want to deny their consumptive lifestyles could possibly be to blame). Elizabeth's problem will be when the world goes tits up around her - you can bet she'll give a damn when she's the one struggling to survive with runaway climate change. It's just a shame - for her - that everyone else will probably adopt her world view when it's no longer a matter of cinema or dvd, chinese or indian, playstation or xbox, but one of life or death...
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