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EasyJet
and Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the
airline company EasyJet 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 Andy Harrison, Chief
Executive of EasyJet –
Is there no end to easyJet? In just ten years you’ve come from nowhere to be
carrying over 35 million passengers a year, and increasing all the time. In that
figure you can include me and my dear wife, Mrs Shullot, when her stars tell her
that it is safe to fly; and our two teenage children Wayne and Tracey who,
though your flights are known for their cheapness, never seem to have the money
to pay for themselves.
I fear that the greens have got to you. I’ve read that you are launching an
“easyJet ecoJet” to cut CO2 emissions by 50% by 2015, claiming that you are the
first airline to outline the environmental requirements that must be met by the
next generation of short-haul super-clean aircraft. Stop there, Andy. Stay
orange – don’t go green.
If you’re doing this because you care about environment then don’t bother.
Aviation accounts for 1.6% of CO2 emissions. As the UK is responsible for 2% of
the world’s emissions, the impact of UK aviation on climate change is trivial.
But if you’re doing this to capture the green pound, then good luck to you.
There are a lot of suckers out there.
Later letter to Andy Harrison –
You have taken three months to not respond to my letter. I hope your planes
won’t be so slow.
I like you. I like your slogan – We don’t crash our planes, just land them.
And I know you’re welcoming to people in wheelchairs – unlike some airlines – as
my son Wayne can attest to after he’d broken his leg when running away from the
police. But I live in despair of a reply.
Sadly EasyJet declined to reply
Letter to EasyJet
Later letter to EasyJet
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