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Bovis
Homes and
Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the house builder Bovis 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 Malcolm Harris, Chief Executive –
So you have been around since 1885? Good for you. You’re known as reliable,
trusty worthy, old-fashioned, beating to a different drum type of company that
gets my vote. Not for you the fame and celebrity of an over-rated footballer and
his skinny wife. As your slogan proclaims – We give you so much more.
Was the Great put into Britain by caring about so-called “green” issues? Did we
become the greatest country in the world by worrying about the planet? If we
thought about the possible consequences of our actions all the time then we’d
never get out of the bed in the morning, and this island would be as significant
as Rockall.
I need to be convinced that in the future your homes won’t have windmills
keeping me awake, solar panels reflecting the light, water buckets dripping rain
and other “green” devices that will make it look like a spaceship.
Malcolm Harris replied –
Further to your letter dated 6th July I find it quite difficult to
reply to your letter as I believe it is inherent upon all of us to find ways of
providing renewable energy and Bovis Homes is committed to playing a part in
this by using resources in a sensible way and providing energy efficient homes
and sustainability.
Letter to Bovis Homes
Reply from Bovis Homes
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