On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:41:48 +0000, Steve Firth wrote:

I think it was called "Getting to Zero" it may be on iplayer still.

Fortunately, if I try to use iPlayer, it bitches at me, telling me I
can't get BBC content from here in Spain. Shame.

One
thing that had me laughing was that the family was intending to have a
holiday in Spain and the "team" suggested that they could go to Brittany
by ferry to have a "zero carbon" lifestyle.

What sort of world does Monbiot live in where a ferry is "zero carbon"?

LOL. Maybe if it was a sailing ship, made of fair-trade wood and
vegetarian leather, perhaps...

The program seemed to gloss over how they would get to the ferry and
away from the ferry.

It is possible to walk on/off some of these ferrys. But unless you're
prepared to walk from your canvas home in the forest (remember: real
houses have cement in them, and cement is eeeeEEEEEEEEeeeevil and
creates carbon[1].

It also featured the use of EVs with no indication
of where the energy for the EV was to come from and several pathetic
"Road to Damascus" events in the father's life as he eschewed all forms
of carbon.

Except for the carbon he's mostly made of (after water), obviously. I'm
getting righteously angry just thinking about moonbat and his cock-arsed
"play", and I've not even heard it. Grrrr! Think I'm going to for a
drive to nowhere in particular just to MAKE SOME CARBON[1]!



[1] Please note that, unless you happen to have a large ball of fusing
hydrogen[2] in your garden shed, it is NOT POSSIBLE TO MAKE CARBON!

[2] Actually, not hydrogen, but some heavier elements[3] - but I've
forgotten which ones fuse to make carbon.

[3] If you start getting iron, for gawd's sakes turn the thing off, or
you'll do more than just blow the bloody doors off.

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Cheers!
Ade.