Welcome to the Green Wall of Shame where we name and shame the environmentally unfriendly people, places and things around the world. If you know of anyone or anything to be added here let us know. And you can get ‘Shamers’ removed too - if you’ve got a good enough reason.
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 Jeremy Clarkson The TV presenter and car fanatic seems to be a nice guy. I find him funny and amiable, I’m sure I’d like him if I’d met him. But there’s no denying he doesn’t care about the environment and drives very un-eco friendly cars for a living. However the day he drives a true eco-car and loves it, I think he’ll get the green lobby back onside. If he cares.
 John Prescott The former UK deputy Prime Minister was known as Two Jags. Although he’s had his ministerial Jaguar taken away, he still makes the Green Wall of Shame.
 George Bush I don’t know where to start, but even if you forget about the morals of the various wars, invasions and occupations, the environmental cost has been huge. Then there’s Kyoto… |
 Mississippi State University Every season, the entire campus gets stripped of all landscaping, including some trees, and replaced with hundreds of thousands of dollars of different landscaping, which is unnecessary.
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 Dubai Constant building in a desert, increasing traffic in a desert and huge water demands in a desert. Oh, and air conditioned bus shelters. I suppose we should be happy someone’s taking the bus.
 Airports Asphalt, tarmac, oil, fuel, noise, waste, bottled water, plastic, paper, CO2 - should I go on?
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 Plastic bags Like they give you at supermarkets and other places. In fact, all of them. Plastic grocery bags. Plastic produce bags. Plastic shopping bags. Plastic garbage bags. Plastic newspaper bags. Plastic phone book bags. Plastic drycleaning bags. Enough already.  Lightbulbs
 Shipping containers Made out out metal in the first place, they also have hardword floors and “over 10 million tropical hardwood trees are cut down every year in order to make container floors. These are trees that take 40-60+ years to mature”. New ‘eco-containers’ with bamboo floors are being introduced but even then they’re often coated with fungicides and insecticides to keep out bugs.
 Bottled water Why have water shipped in from abroad when the stuff coming out of you tap is fine. You can find more about what we think here.
 Burgers Cornell University reckons “your average quarter pounder, siphons 600 gallons of water, 1.2 pounds of feed grain, and 6 square feet of former prairie land — plus the loss of five times the patty’s weight in topsoil — even before it gets slapped on a grill.” Also it’s estimated a cheeseburger has a carbon footprint of about 6.5 pounds of emissions. And in America that equates to approximately 941 to 1023 pounds (428-465 kg) of greenhouse gas per person, per year — “the rough equivalent of the annual carbon output from 7,500-15,000 SUVs if the 300 million US citizens hit the 3 burgers/week average”.
 Polystyrene/Styrofoam You can actually recycle polystyrene but most of it ends up in landfill although it’s not biodegradable. Avoid it the best you can.
 Cars They’re just not great for the environment. There’s bound to be particular ones on the Wall in the future, but at the moment they can all go on. |
