Surely we are all a tad fed up of all the B.S. coming out of government circles about the need to reduce our carbon footprint. Its in a good cause we tell ourselves, saving the planet and all that. So we put up with patronising speeches and punitive taxes. After all its not just us ordinary punters, its the rich and big business too. Same rules apply.
Or do they?
At the same time as the government is lecturing us and hiking up fuel taxes they are dismantling the planning regulations that give the public a say on decisions to build new roads and extend airport runways. Today we hear the totally unneccessary extension to Stanstead airport is to be railroaded through the approvals process.
The governments of the G8 countries are doing nothing to make it less profitable to ship carrots halway round the world to our supermarkets simply because greed and short termism are the controlling issue.
Without growth the global economy falls apart. And growth depends on putting more cars and trucks on the roads, more planes in the air and more fossil fuel in the engines and furnaces of industry.
While politicians mouth hypocritical platitudes about reducing emissions they are actually working to a plan that will INCREASE emissions by around 25% by 2030.

Someone is having a laugh at our expense.