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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and
Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and
Peter Shullot about climate change. The letters in full are at the bottom of the
page. This is one of 65 sets of letters so you can find out what your
supermarket, energy supplier and car manufacturer, and oil companies, airlines,
house builders and other companies really think about climate change. The name
Peter Shullot is made up – it is an anagram of The Polluters.
To Louis Armstrong, Chief Executive –
I’m not a man known for biting his tongue so I’ll get straight to the point.
It’s this thing called climate change. It’s a story made up by the greens to
scare us – like tales about monsters and dragons to frighten children.
Buildings
produce 25% of all CO2 emissions! So what? The climate can take it – that’s why
we have the Amazon jungle to soak it all up. It’s been raining for a week and
Mrs Shullot is still using her electric blanket, so don’t tell me that the world
is getting hotter.
Listening to the greens bleat on about it is as interesting as enduring my
wife’s fourteenth attempt to give up smoking. Really it’s just a scam for their
red agenda. If the greens get their way your members will be ruptured by
regulation like they would have been with the home information packs. Your
members should be allowed to build what we want, nor what they’re told we need.
An Englishman’s home is his castle so we don’t want a passing wolf to blow it
down.
Your members already have to give over a quarter of any new scheme to “social
housing” to house the undesirable elements in society – the problem families,
the workshy and the great unwashed, and this is the thanks they get for it.
Louis Armstrong replied –
Thank you for your refreshingly amusing letter of 6 July.
While we do not quite share your wholescale rejection of the global warming
theory (despite the cogent anecdotal evidence provided by your wife’s nocturnal
hypothermia) we are certainly astute to the danger of “gold plating” European
legislation.
Any effective action to curb “greenhouse gas” emissions will need to comprise a
finely balanced mix of carrots and sticks, and a generous portion of common
sense. We are working with the leading environmental organisations and the
Government to devise the “best buy” in the field.
Once again, many thanks for enlivening our quotidian existence with your
forthright views.
Letter to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Reply from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
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