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Straight Talking
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Name::straighttalker05
From::Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
I'm an avid dreamer. I have big ideas, and I'll probably take them somewhere. Watch this space. I want to present what I think - and not with words minced up into an acceptable platter. Some things need to be told straight - particularly gay rights. Particularly life in the closet, it's very nature means no one hears it. If they do it's usually tinted with nostalgia. I'm confident, I know what I like and what I don't. Please don't confuse this for arrogance. I'm probably more insecure then you imagine.
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

My Carbon Footprint


I have quite small feet, corresponding to my small stature. A website has worked out my impact on our environment to be smaller than the average carbon guzzler. I admit I’m not environmentalist really. But according to this website I’m not a bad citizen.

I’m a vegetarian; I get the bus, walk, cycle or get the train everywhere (unless I’m at home, where I make up for the hours spent in the rain waiting for the bus by whizzing about at speed). I recycle glass and paper, and considering the amount of alcohol I drink, that is lots of glass. My current living space is terribly well insulated (to the point of killing my herb plants).

This environmentally friendly living isn’t too bad, as long as I don’t have to commute for too long in the cold and rain. I don’t mind recycling, as long as it doesn’t take much time. I have been a vegetarian for years, so the cows are safe.

My only problem is that I fly. Lots. Yes, yes, it’s very bad. But I’m not a big fan of boats, and I do live on an island, and have to study in the middle of another island. I think the new airline taxes should be variable. I’m so good for most of the time, VERY good. So why should I pay expensive airfares for my guilty trips home?

Taxes for most things depend on how much money you have. It makes sense then that environmental taxes are variable, according to your carbon footprint.

Not that the government ministers who fly lots and lots and claim it back as expenses care about my walks in the rain, my time spent cramped in a bus or trying to work a cycle lock....

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1 Comments:

Blogger missfee said...

Oh i do most of those things although since we moved into our flat just over a month ago we haven't gotten round to putting the glas bottles out for recycling... now it's gotten to the point where, even between 2, we cannot carry them downstairs... and I guess I walk rather than get buses because I hate public transport... but sure, I'll call it being environmentally friendly!

Tue Feb 20, 01:57:00 PM  

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