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LIGHTS OUT
The ‘lights out’ exercise this evening was a great way to raise global awareness of climate change. It was also nice for friends and family just to sit, talk and read for an hour without the drone of a poor quality program on the TV in the background.
However, if we really care and the government practices what it preaches, why are we and it hell bent on disrupting millions of lives by destroying houses and pastures, creating tonnes of polluting gases and producing unwanted noise pollution by expanding air traffic and airports? How is it that the BAA (A Spanish company) can dictate to us these demands?
Is it morally acceptable that every person is paying more and more tax in the name of the environment when it is often cheaper to fly from one end of the UK to the other for a “Good night out” than it is to drive or catch a train to see friends or family that are only a fraction of that distance away? It is a clear indication that we are being priced off the roads through rising fuel costs and taxation but does the same apply to the airline industry?
When we start to pay congestion charges to pop into our local town and pay per mile to get to work via “smart CCTV’s” and “chipped cars”, will it be then that we ask who is really gaining from all this?
In the meantime we can watch the new proposed air traffic stacking areas directly overhead build up, which is to assist in the development of extra runways at Stansted and Luton! That is, of course, unless you believe in the published hype, that it is necessary for environmental gains etc.
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