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Written on 30-Apr-2009 by
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/inside-story-advertising-environ...
Inside Story: Advertising environmentalism - Is it just greenwash?
Last week the Advertising Standards Authority ordered car-maker Renault to stop a campaign that made false environmental claims. Ben Stewart, Greenpeace's director of communications, puts to the test other examples of products claiming to have ecological benefits
Volkswagen's 'High performance - low emissions' advertisement
Monday, 31 March 2008
VOLKSWAGEN
Following the Heathrow camp.
The debate has been stirred up a bit over aviation, emissions and airport expansion, but the government has managed to stay out of it, also the Tories with Redwood's policy commission's transport chapter, released on Friday which strongly argues for a new runway at Heathrow without spelling it out.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2809171.ece
Five million people in peaceful environmental organisations such as the National Trust and the RSPB have become the subject of an extraordinary legal attempt to limit their right to protest.
If you're a member of the National Trust, the RSPB, the Woodland Trust or Friends of the Earth, then you could be banned from Britain's biggest airport. And the Piccadilly line. And parts of Paddington station. And sections of the M4. All because the authorities want to halt a protest against climate change...
At long last top scientists who have devoted their lives to the study of climatology are openly daring to state that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is plain wrong in claiming that global warming is caused by CO2 emissions.
They are confirming, in the face of death threats and lack of funding, what so many rational-thinking people have suspected all along; that global warming is not a result of human activity or industrialisation, but of increased activity on the sun, which directly affects our climate and weather, and it has been going on since the beginning of time. That icon of self-promotion Al Gore recently made an environmental film, "An Inconvenient Truth", illustrating “incontrovertible†evidence that there is a correlation between global warming and the build-up of CO2 emissions – except that he had failed to grasp the fact – or conveniently overlooked - that increases in levels of CO2 happen as a result of increased global temperature and not the other way round. The film won an Oscar for Best Documentary, by the way. Just how brainwashed are we all?
As EDM 2711 noted, two opinion polls last year indicated that the public viewed reducing flying and raising aviation tax favourably. They can be read at http://www.ipsos-mori.com/polls/2006/aet.shtml and www.communicateresearch.com/poll.php?id=85. The latter found that 63% of Britons would be prepared to sacrifice one foreign holiday by air travel annually to help save the planet.
Now we have the Mail on Sunday claiming "Cameron's green tax on air travel a massive vote loser". It begins "David Cameron's green tax on air travel risks becoming a massive vote loser for the Tory leader, according to a new poll". The article actually notes that, according to an opinion poll by BPIX, his voting preference ratings were holding up well and he was viewed slightly better for policies on climate change than Labour.
The Guardian reports today that the government has launched an outspoken attack on major airlines for refusing to take climate change seriously, branding Ryanair "the irresponsible face of capitalism" and describing the attitude of major American airlines "a disgrace".
