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Sir Bob Geldof is a singer, songwriter, business man and political activist. His campaigning experience gives him unique insight into the issues affecting developing countries.
- Why low-carbon living should be encouraged but not imposed by
- Politics & Energy Thu, 13 Dec 2007 9:27 a.m.
The reason I drive a hybrid car is simple: to avoid London's congestion charge. I simply couldn't stand paying the fucking thing. It drove me nuts. The idea that I could help fight climate change didn't come into it. I've been taxed into helping. And this, of course, it what any form of taxation should do. It should lead to behavioural change.
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- Maintaining our carbon balance with the developing world by
- Politics & Energy Thu, 13 Dec 2007 9:26 a.m.
Getting UK drivers to drive hybrids may help in the fight against climate change, but any efforts that a small country such as the UK makes in this area are doomed to failure if developing countries become as enthusiastic for cars as we have been over the past century.
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- Could hybrids help reduce our thirst for oil? by
- Politics & Energy Thu, 13 Dec 2007 9:26 a.m.
UK politics would change significantly if hybrids were able to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and gas. Our foreign policy, in particular, would be completely different. After all, who's interested in Saudi Arabia or Libya without the oil? And would we still be so involved in Iraq? No.
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- Why the hybrid must be a stepping stone to something better by
- Environment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 5:38 p.m.
As a society, we're bound up completely in the use of the car, because it's one of our two most important forms of communication, the other being the phone. At the beginning of the 20th Century, very few people had either device. And those who did couldn't possibly imagine the effect they'd have on the world economy and the way we live.
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