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The 10:10 Campaign

  • 02-09-2009 1:35pm
    #1
    Jim Martin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone think of a good reason why Ireland should not also support this campaign?:

    http://www.1010uk.org/


Comments

  • #2
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Cause it's got a vague image of Britain laid out in chain on the homepage.


  • #3
    Jim Martin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Jim Martin


    Get over it and look at the wider view of how to keep this poor old long suffering planet going!


  • #4
    Shiny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    If you take the effects of the recession into account and look at
    "How can I cut 10%", in nearly every case people will be cutting
    back in those areas whether they realise it or not.

    Ireland isn't supporting this campaign as it has other things to
    worry about at the moment.*


    *Observation, not fact.


  • #5
    Húrin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    Sounds good as long as they don't start pumping out those necklaces by the million and generally trying to be like the Make Poverty History "campaign".


  • #6
    RangeR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,265 ✭✭✭RangeR


    Jim Martin wrote: »
    Get over it and look at the wider view of how to keep this poor old long suffering planet going!

    How many times?
    The planet is not in danger. We are.


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  • #7
    Jim Martin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Jim Martin


    Shiny wrote: »
    If you take the effects of the recession into account and look at
    "How can I cut 10%", in nearly every case people will be cutting
    back in those areas whether they realise it or not.

    Ireland isn't supporting this campaign as it has other things to
    worry about at the moment.*


    *Observation, not fact.

    That's no excuse for not bothering to do anything!


  • #8
    Cheeble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭Cheeble


    Húrin wrote: »
    Sounds good as long as they don't start pumping out those necklaces by the million and generally trying to be like the Make Poverty History "campaign".

    Did you miss the section on their website, "We bought a Jumbo Jet, sawed it up, melted it down and made hundreds of thousands of 10:10 tags so people can show that they are committed to preventing catastrophic climate change."

    Apparently the first 3,000 will be handed out for free, the remaining 147,000, one suspects, turn an otherwise well intentioned campaign into a scam.

    Cheeble-eers


  • #9
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    On March 15th 2009, at the premiere of the climate blockbuster The Age of Stupid, in a solar-powered cinema tent in London’s Leceister Square, actor Pete Postlethwaite ambushed the UK’s Minister for Climate Change, Ed Miliband, with a giant pledge. “If you commission a new dirty coal power station,” it read, “then I promise to never vote Labour again – and give back my OBE”. It worked: within a month Miliband had changed the UK coal policy.

    jesus pete your my hero


  • #10
    Húrin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    this campaign appeals to people who have already taken steps to reduce their footprint. It will be ignored by those "gas-guzzlers" who don't.

    Polls show that most Britons think they should personally be doing more to cut their carbon but I have doubts you would get a similar proportion of Irish people saying the same. Our government has spent most of the last year acting as if climate change as an issue disappeared at the same time as the Celtic Tiger.

    The instigation of this campaign in Ireland will be on the agenda for the next Climate Camp all-Ireland meeting in Dublin on 26th September. All are welcome to come and get involved.


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