If you find the sight if Lycra stretched tightly over the wobbling rump of a cycle-mentalist disturbing consider yourself lucky not to have been in Brighton at the weekend when a helmet (collective noun just coined) of unreconstructed hippies rode naked.
Ugh.
Duncan Blinkhorn, 45, no seriously, one of the organisers of the seven-mile Brighton ride, said: "This is a fun if outrageous way to make the serious point that we should not have to tolerate roads, cities and a planet dominated by the brutishness of cars that routinely foul the air we all breathe.
"Bikes and naked bodies harm nobody. Car fumes are driving us all to climate chaos."
Well they are not are they and every time I see this out and out lie given an airing I will point out that car emissions are a tiny part of the picture. Certainly no more the cause than mammal flatulence.
There are several threats to the planet and among the biggest is the huge white noise effect of the green movement and of people unable to make a stand of their own, frightened not to follow the latest chattering class fashion.
The overwhelming babble of knock-kneed prohibitionists is drowning out the few voices that are asking hey, if it is happening like it has before man even existed to take the blame, what are we doing to bring our huge technologies to bear on protecting from climate any effects?
The answer, by the way, is nothing.
Instead we are falling foul of viciously smug extremists who will not rest until we all live on wholemeal porridge and travel no further than two miles from the communal tee-pee.
We all rush to the parade but no one dare ask if the emperor is wearing any clothes.
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