Using a helicopter isn’t eco friendly
I watched an interesting documentary recently about a family involved in an eco home project. In order to speed things on a bit when their home was inaccessible because of road conditions, they USED A HELICOPTER TO FLY IN BUILDING MATERIALS.
Did these people genuinely believe that their efforts could in any way be labelled ’sustainable’ when, surrounded by forest, they airlifted wood in to build their home? What did they think this would do to their carbon footprint?
In a similar vein - I listened to a radio program this morning about sustainable travel - in which they skirted round the fundamental problem - if you are travelling by plane, it’s not a sustainable holiday. The man interviewed, who runs a sustainable travel website, recommended that we travel less frequently by plane, and, I quote “we should all start taking less frequent, longer holidays, like we used to” - like who used to? the landed gentry?
And if another person tells me that “using a dish washer actually uses less water than washing by hand” - I will scream (at the sheer horror that so many otherwise intelligent people can be so easily ‘greenwashed’). Do the maths. Do you really use a bathfull of water to wash up a cup? What research did the marketing department of said dish washer manufacturer base their claims on? Why would you accept this without question - unless you were looking for a convenient excuse not to modify your lifestyle in the face of global warming.
We’re going to hell in a hand-card, and it’s our own stupidity wheeling us along.