Monday, February 25, 2008

Johann Hari nails it on climate change consumerism

Johann Hari is a columnist for The Independent and a few other places. Today's piece on his website makes it clear why he's worth reading:
"...dispersed consumer choices are not going to keep the climate this side of a disastrous temperature rise. The only way that can ever happen is by governments legislating to force us all – green and anti-green – to shift towards cleaner behaviour. Just as the government in the Second World War did not ask people to eat less voluntarily, governments today cannot ask us to burn fewer greenhouse gases voluntarily."
Read it, and then go join something :-).

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good link. I have sent this on to John Maytham.