The Great Green Smoke Screen

I watched the ‘The Great Green Smoke Screen’ last night on Channel 4 and it confirmed everything I thought about off setting namely it doesn’t make a blind bit of difference and that the only way to save the planet is to reduce our carbon emissions. All these companies that claim to be carbon neutral aren’t really reducing their carbon emissions at all they doing is paying someone in fairyland to ‘offset’ their carbon emissions whilst pumping more and more C02 into the atmosphere.

If companies like Sky and HSBC really want to be carbon neutral then maybe they should think about switching off the office lights at night and not fly around the globe. I’m sure HSBC could have video conferencing of all of it’s top executives and so they wouldn’t need to fly to meetings wherever they are. And what is the point of Sky putting a helicopter in the air to film the Chancellor going from Downing Street for his last Budget then cut to an ad break as soon as he is in the car!!! Come on if that wasn’t a needless waste of C02 then I’m the pope.

I also think it is highly hypocritical of one T. Blair – Former PM – to appear in an advert saying we need to reduce our carbon emissions whilst at the same time jetting off on foreign holidays to spend with his super rich friends.