Brown x Green = Grey

So the government has given the thumbs-up to a new runway at Heathrow. Coming about a year after it raised airport tax to apparently lower the number of flights it sends a contradictory message, unless its decoded as one of getting more taxes for the government coffers...so they can build their new nuclear power plants!

George Monbiot recently commented on the government's framing and blurring of environmentalism in the Guardian: 'The law the British government passed a fortnight ago - by 2010, 5% of our road transport fuel must come from crops - will, it claims, save between 700,000 and 800,000 tonnes of carbon a year. It derives this figure by framing the question carefully. If you count only the immediate carbon costs of planting and processing biofuels, they appear to reduce greenhouse gases. When you look at the total impacts, you find they cause more warming than petroleum.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2205761,00.html