Date published: 2007/08/13
The BBC says:
Exclusion zones should be set up around schools to force parents and children to walk to class, a report suggests.
The Institute for European Environmental Policy blames over-use of cars for fuelling the "twin crises" of global warming and an obesity epidemic.
More control freakery from the academic middle class (who are responsible for far more global warming than the average UK citizen), in this case from one of the zillions of consultancies which plague the nation (and it seems, Europe). Is this the first generation of ruling elite to actively campaign to make the lives of its citizens worse? And of course why stop at schools. We should force everybody to walk to work. And walk to the shops. And walk to the seaside for the annual holiday. Heck, let's just ban cars completely (or at least for the peasants, needless to say the ruling elite need to get around). The only advantage of having these useless consultancies fritter their time away on such silliness is that it leaves them less time to cause even more damage somewhere else. But needless to say, what would be best is if these people got a real job and stopped wasting the resources of the world peddling their control freakery.
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