Think Living Green Will Save the Earth? Rubbish Muriel Gray Argues That All the Bottle Banks in the World Won T Save the Planet From an Environmental Apocalypse.Only Governments Can Do That F and They Show No Signs of Trying

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WARMfor the time of year, isn't it? Well of course it is. The Earth isheating up, the climate is changing, the ice caps are melting and the oceans are dying. Fossil fuel reserves are calculated to last only another 40 years, making the future lives of our children at best uncertain, and at worst putting them in considerable peril from the implications of a world power shortage.

None of this, of course, is as interesting as our Home Secretary's philandering, or ex-royal butlers biting through writhing bugs in the jungle. But at least the news that our government has failed to meet its targets of limiting greenhouse gas emissions slipped in to one or two newspapers last week, just long enough for all the usual TV and radio shows to use it as a 10- minute discussion point, wedged between debates concerning the betrayal of some football manager by going to a rival team and why women lie better than men.

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Think Living Green Will Save the Earth? Rubbish Muriel Gray Argues That All the Bottle Banks in the World Won T Save the Planet From an Environmental Apocalypse.Only Governments Can Do That F and They Show No Signs of Trying

The main focus of these discussions was whether we are, as individuals, sufficiently green. If we're not recycling our tins, cycling to work and composting our potato peel, then why the hell not? Who will we have to blame but ourselves, when Mother ...

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