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Mark
Guest
Hi
Did anyone see this? I only saw the opening few minutes (will download
it later) but it seemed to be based around telling people that they'll
have to "go green" one day and that from then their lives will be
miserable with no car and no cheap foreign holidays. The show followed
a family who had been forced to live under these conditions for a
year. The presenter, Jeremy Vine (someone who massively irritates me
at the best of times), was his usual antagonistic self: "I don't like
being told what to do so instead I drove my massive car around and
flew off to the Canaries with my family". ****.
Perhaps the show didn't live up to its initial impressions (I hope it
didn't) but it struck me as a fairly effective way of turning people
off the idea of perhaps living a bit more modestly. I'm no tree-
hugging swampy but I think it's fairly obvious to anyone with a bit of
sense that we can't sustain current lifestyles indefinitely.
Mark
Did anyone see this? I only saw the opening few minutes (will download
it later) but it seemed to be based around telling people that they'll
have to "go green" one day and that from then their lives will be
miserable with no car and no cheap foreign holidays. The show followed
a family who had been forced to live under these conditions for a
year. The presenter, Jeremy Vine (someone who massively irritates me
at the best of times), was his usual antagonistic self: "I don't like
being told what to do so instead I drove my massive car around and
flew off to the Canaries with my family". ****.
Perhaps the show didn't live up to its initial impressions (I hope it
didn't) but it struck me as a fairly effective way of turning people
off the idea of perhaps living a bit more modestly. I'm no tree-
hugging swampy but I think it's fairly obvious to anyone with a bit of
sense that we can't sustain current lifestyles indefinitely.
Mark