Ken Livingstone, Peter Garett And Al Gore: SOS

THE World is drowning, melting, burning and choking. The Guardian lists the “50 people who could save the planet”.

“Stranded polar bears, melting glaciers, dried-out rivers and flooding on a horrific scale – these were the iconic images of 2007. So who is most able to stop this destruction to our world? A Guardian panel, taking nominations from key environmental figures, met to compile a list of our ultimate green heroes.”

A panel will save the world. Hurrah! This is superheroes by committee. Super camel!

Or Ken Livingstone, London mayor, who told us to stop flushing the toilet.

Peter Garrett, Politician – “the former punk lead singer of the disbanded Australian rock group Midnight Oil, who continued his weird journey from radical muso to establishment politician when he was appointed Australia’s environment minister in November. He began with gigs outside Exxon offices and protests at the Sydney Olympics about Aboriginal rights, and found himself labelled a turncoat by some at the election.”

As Tim Blair points out: The Exxon gig took place in 1990, about 15 years after Midnight Oil was formed.

He was nominated here by Jonathon Porritt, for being “instrumental in shaping the Australian Labour party’s climate change and environment policies”.

Garrett isn’t permitted to speak on the subject of climate change. Looks like we’re doomed.

Al Gore – the man who lost Florida

S.O.S…

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