I’ve been trying to save the planet for year now. Like, really saving it. If I see a cow farting I go and tell it how bad that is for the environment. I turn off lights. Then turn them back on because I can’t read the paper in the dark. I plant flowers. Because trees are too big for our flower beds and begonias are the next best thing. Well, they photosynthesise, don’t they?

But a year ago we made the nearly conscious decision to get an electric car. We did the due diligence, investigated the ‘ranges’ of all available models. Deduct 60 miles from it because no car manufacturer is any more honest about the range of their batteries than they were about the economy of their petrol engines. We wanted a car that didn’t employ child labour, but unfortunately that happens with the mining of the Lithium so its a bit of a problem. We wanted a car that wasn’t about 6 times more carbon releasing than an equivalent petrol one, during its manufacture. But such a car doesn’t exist. So we forgot all that shit because to adopt a truly holier-than-thou stance in the motoring world no-one really cares about any of that. Only that it is, in some way, electric.

The problem is: we’re still waiting for it to arrive. And until it does we’re not allowed to be smug. We can’t say to people: ‘oh, you’re still driving a PETROL car, are you?’ Unless its a McLaren because even Greta Thunberg stops being a pain in the ass to admire those. And after 12 months of waiting, I’ve reached the point where I’m actually in favour of using the whip on those kids down the Lithium mines, abusing the slave labour to get more silicon chips to produce more processors, anything. Just get our fucking car. So we can let everyone know how morally superior we are compared to them.

And in that vein, I’m just a little curious how the ‘greenest World Cup ever!!!’, which in fact is nothing of the sort anyway, reconciles the air conditioning of open air stadia in 30 degree temperatures, to reducing carbon footprints? Just curious. No accusations, just… idle interest.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx