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Barratt Homes and
Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the house builder Barratt
Homes
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 Mark Clare, Chief
Executive –
Though they don’t it yet,
my children will soon be leaving home as me and the good lady wife will be
retiring to the Shullot mansion in Spain, where we have a number of
acquaintances. What I want to know, Mark, is will there still be Barratt homes
available I can fix them up with? The reason I ask is this nonsense about
climate change which means you’ve got to cut CO2 emissions, produce energy
performance certificates and make homes “carbon free”.
But global warming is just a lie put about by the greens. Now, I could talk
about how the greens are destroying jobs, lives and the economy, but that would
be unfair. So let’s just concentrate on the fact that since the sad death of
General Pinochet this country’s decline has become terminal. The reason is the
rise of “environmentalism”. Climate change is the new correctness, to add to the
ones that precede it. The earlier ones could be laughed off in ceremonial
burnings of The Guardian down a side alley. But “climate change” is more serious
as it threatens the British way of life – known for its sense of right and
wrong, queues for the Sales, and intolerance towards illegal immigrants.
Please assure me that you have plans to tackle the green threat so I can kick my
children onto the street and into one of your homes.
Barratt Homes replied –
The ‘Green Agenda’ clearly means that we’ll have to change the way we build
homes and the requirement is that by 2016 new homes will be zero carbon.
We need to respond to this agenda and our thinking is well advanced. Indeed we
have plans to build one of the most environmentally advanced homes ever built
and will learn a lot from this in terms of how to tackle the challenges of the
future.
Letter to Barratt Homes
Reply from Barratt Homes
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