environment

Is the world really going mad, or are people just being plain stupid. I am the first to try to do my best for the environment. I have a wormery. My new composter just arrived. Ive replaced all the bulbs in our new house to energy saving ones.

I probably only drive about 30 miles a week as I can commute to London on public transport. I don't have any kids. So in the scheme of things, my carbon footprint is pretty good, though could always be better.

BUT - I am under no illusion when I accept that human activity is inevitably damaging to the environment. There is nothing you can do to stop it, you can just try to limit it. To take the argument to its end - the way to help the environment is to look at population control - but that argument is for another day. We seem to be moving towards environmental considerations being of paramount importance above and beyond everything else, and that could be very very dangerous.

I had a Victor Meldrew moment and nearly felt myself saying I DON'T BELIEVE IT, when I read this story today.

Now we can have argument about whether prisoners should have showers in their own cells. I don't remember getting my own personal shower at University, but hey if you're a criminal I'm sure it's all part of your human rights.

What I can't believe is that we have a story about prisoners showers and how they are  contributing to the government's CO2 output. The reason I can't believe it, is that I can just imagine the next stage of this story. Well, we've had to release a few prisoners early, so we can meet our CO2 targets.

God knows what will be next. Perhaps prisoners will be forced back into slopping out, all in the name of being environmentally friendly! In fact - we could all just wash every other day (something some people I stand next to on the underground clearly do) just to do our bit.

Alternatively we could have a bit of common sense, and do our bit to limit our environmental impact, but appreciate that our very existence impacts on our planet.

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A quick podcast of me ranting about bottled water on Radio 5. I'll write more on this subject tomorrow 21st Feb) over at www.partypoliticalanimal.com

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No one can have missed the recent comments about how its apparently immoral for us to drink bottled water. I have written a piece over the the Party Political Animal.

Whilst looking into the issue it was very enlightening to see that at the resignation speech of our former PM, Northumbrian water actually bottled tap water. Oh dear oh dear. It's alright for Tony to have bottled water - but not for us plebs. Tony was so pleased he was happy to have his picture taken with the bottled water. Mr Woolas won't be pleased!

UPDATE - It appears as though the DoH has advocated giving bottled water to schools. Joined up Government at it's best.

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ConservativeHome have got hold of a copy of the quality of Life report due out in the morning which you can read by clicking this link. Tim rightly points out that this version has no exec summary (I assume one will be available in the morning) which is very ironic, as a 500 plus page report including many aspects about saving energy and being kind to the environment is hardly easy to read online - and hardly environmentally friendly to print.

However needs must...and I will be cranking up the HP bubblejet......but in the morning!

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Roger Helmer has recorded a podcast for Tory Radio in  which he further outlines his views on the Quality of Life report due out imminently.

In the podcast he expresses delight that David Cameron is distancing himself from the proposal for parking charges on out of town stores.

In the podcast you can hear Roger comment,

"Much of the stuff in the Gummer Goldsmith proposals is absolute anti Conservative nonsense….."

"We really have to make up our mind as Conservatives whether we're actually supply side tax cutters or whether we're socio environmental tinkerers and interventionists...."

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