Quote Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish View Post
You're totally wrong. The UK's record on the environment is as good as any Western economy. Go to China [not by plane though], where the are building a coal-fired power station every month. India, Pakistan, etc.

These people do f*ck all, just tell others how to live - dont' fly, don't eat meat, don't drive. Yet they're nearly all privileged, with the time and money to go round screwing everybody else before they go back to Mummy and Daddy and their ponies..
Isn't that sort of their point though? Saying our record is as good as any other Western nation and far better than worst performing isn't good enough, we're in a position where doing what is comfortable isn't good enough, and while we can't control what China is doing we can control what the UK is doing. There are protestors in other nations, perhaps not China, who are saying exactly the same thing with their countries respectively.

Privileged voice giving that message or not, it seems to be a clear statement about how close we are as a planet to things getting very messy.