Mark Watson’s crap at the environment
I just caught the first instalment of Mark Watson’s Radio 4 Book of the Week this morning: the story of his ‘one year of doing the environment better’ that he’s put together in his new book, Crap At The Environment.
Fair play to Mark for taking on the subject, and doing it in both a committed (in terms of time) and common sense way. The way he talks about climate change fixes firmly in the vernacular, and that’s an important way of addressing the subject. Humour helps too. However, although he apologised for being crass about it, this I found highly unfunny:
“Deforestation? Have a look on Google Earth, there seems enough of it left to me.”
Deforestation is a massive climate change and equity issue. There’s just no need to take cheap shots while doing something so worthy. This below, however, is more interesting and opens up the point from which Mark started his internal-investigation into his own crapness towards the environment (there are four more instalments this week). On the programme today, Mark said this: More »
