SUSTAINABILITY, TRANSPORT: “Green-aware people ‘key drivers of global warming'”

The Age
25 September 2008

PEOPLE who believe they have the greenest lifestyles are often the main culprits behind global warming, say researchers who claim that many ideas about sustainable living are a myth.

According to the researchers, people who regularly recycle rubbish and save energy at home are the most likely to take frequent long-haul flights.

Research leader Stewart Barr, of Exeter University in England, said: “Green living is largely something of a myth. There is this middle-class environmentalism where being green is part of the desired image. But another part of the desired image is to fly off skiing twice a year. And the carbon savings they make by not driving their kids to school will be obliterated by pollution from their flights.”…

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