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Day Six: The rattling of the stick

Part of the Greenpeace Motor Show blog

shave.jpgI haven't checked whether it was another record breaker, but today was bloody hot. Feeling somewhat grubby when I arrived at the motor show, I decided to take a stroll over to the Galaxy First Class Lounge to pay a visit to my barber, Amir Dastgir.

Amir is a First Class barber, it's written all over his face in the shape of a beard designed by Euclid and laser sculpted by NASA. So precisely defined it's got a ten page entry in the OED, so sharp it cuts itself. I relax into the reclining chair, gazing up at the racing car nailed twenty feet up on the wall, and within minutes the only discernable difference between my head and a baby's bottom is a pair of eyebrows.

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Climate Crime File: Ford

Publication Date: 
1 May 2005
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Ford claims to agree that climate change is real and the time for action is now. In its Corporate Citizenship report of 2001, Ford’s CEO Bill Ford Jr writes: ‘The global temperature is rising and the evidence suggests that the shift is being affected by human activity, including emissions related to fossil fuels used for transportation …We believe it is time to take appropriate action.’

However, this rhetorical concern for the climate is not reflected in Ford’s corporate behaviour, either in terms of the environmental impact of the vehicles it manufactures or its political activities.

 

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Climate Crime File - Land Rover

Publication Date: 
21 Mar 2007
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Publication date: February 2005

Summary
Land Rover's gas-guzzling vechicles are wrecking the climate and its parent company Ford has blocked government action to tackle climate change.