Crackpot George

In Your Pocket's favourite enliarmentalist, Crackpot George Monbiot, is at it again. The man who back in 1999 wrote that "flying across the Atlantic is as unacceptable, in terms of its impact on human well-being, as child abuse" has this week turned his attention to the media, with the revelation that newspapers - though flouting their green credentials editorially - are continuing to take advertising from car manufacturers and airlines. Hypocrisy he calls it. Well I never.

Fortunately, In Your Pockets - which like most print publications rely on advertising for the bulk of their revenue - have no green credentials whatsoever, so the fact that we take ads from all kinds of carbon criminals (airlines, car rental companies) is of no concern to us.

What is worrying is that this continued attack on the travel industry shows no sign whatsoever of coming to an end. Fortunately, our appetite for weekends away in places covered by In Your Pocket also seems to know no bounds. Let's just hope that
Crackpot George and his gang (who would have all short-haul flights come to an abrupt end, forever) continue to do such a good job of making utter fools of themselves.

(Not unlike the Plane Stupid mob I wrote about earlier in the year, currently enjoying what I am sure is a lovely week in a damp field next to Heathrow Airport.