Save the planet: tour Australia by boat

Today, apparently, is Blog Action Day, a day on which all bloggers are supposed to make posts about the environment, highlighting the ways in which we are killing the planet. You'd have thought that not staying indoors burning electricity by tapping away at a computer would be a good start.

Still in the spirit of things, can I repeat my bemusement that after playing five one-day matches in Sri Lanka, England are returning home for five weeks before heading back out to the same country with largely the same group of players for a Test series? Hardly good for the ECB's carbon footprint that.

Bring back the days when players did a winter tour by steam-ship, visiting Sri Lanka on the way down to Australia and popping in for a couple of Tests in New Zealand on the way back. Then again, two months on board a ship being beaten at deck quoits by Kevin Pietersen would probably drive the rest of the team loopy.

On a similar theme, here is a thought for the day: if you deliberately burn your toast and eat it, does your consumption of the carbon offset the energy you have used in toasting the bread in the first place?

Comments

[Prof. S. Hawking]

No Patrick.

A famous fart-arse such as yourself doubles carbon emission which each mouthful of food. Your personal methane production has accounted for a 0.5 degree centigrade increase in Essex's average temperature during the control period 2002-2007.

The only way you could off-set the damage your backside does to the atmospheric environment would be to exclusively eat Vegemite - the world's only secondary airborne toxin neutral foodstuff.

Feel free to contact me for further scientific guidance at any time Patrick.