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Find out what your car manufacturer, supermarket and energy supplier, and oil
companies, airlines, house builders and other companies, really think about
climate change.
Climate change is the most important issue of the day – but do they think so?
I
wrote to the head of 65 major companies in Great Britain across a range of
sectors to find out their attitude towards it. To prevent the letters and their
replies being duller than a celebrity’s autobiography, I pretended to be a
self-made IT millionaire called Peter Shullot who does not believe in climate
change. By claiming that climate change is a myth and attempts to tackle it are
a threat to big business, I sought for the companies to state their actual views
on the issue and not the ones polished by PR.
And
they replied. The airline Ryanair claims that aviation
is not a cause of climate change. The car manufacturer
Jaguar is pleased that I congratulate them on their cars producing so much
CO2. The supermarket Sainsbury’s puts itself above
the environment. The car manufacturer BMW has no time for
the press and politicians on the matter. The oil company
Shell refuses to use my contacts in Russia to combat the greens.
Go to
the links shown for the letters I sent and received and extracts from them.
The
name Peter Shullot is made up – it is an anagram of The Polluters.
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