So the real threat is consumerism? My records, bikes, cars, furniture, house, some of my clothes etc are all old. The PC I am sat behind once belonged to the old giffer off the Antiques Roadshow- I cannot think of anything significant I own (apart from an I-phone) that was made in the last 10 years. I rarely watch TV, grow my own veg and try to avoid supermarkets in favour of the farm shop. I recycle all my glass and packaging, cycle everywhere that I can (and sometimes can't!)- I now do less than 4000 miles per year (and that is to Le Mans and Retrobike meets mainly), I don't fly anywhere as I don't like it and I rarely take holidays full stop.
I'm not trying to be enviromentally sound- its just kinda happened. Is there anything I more I can do to help out? I want to do as much as i can without becoming some twatty mung bean eating divvy in a jumper made of pubic hair.
Off on a slight tangent....The government has not helped with this £2000 scrappage btw- there is a truck full of perfectly usable cars goes past here twice a week from the two main dealers up the road- all destined for the scrap pile. if the government were so convinced that we need to change our habits why don't they put a £2000 penalty on the purchase of new cars? Its supposed to keep car manufacturing going through hard times- would be a sound argument if we still had UK owned car manufacturing, but we don't. Its a disgrace.
