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Cutting carbon: it's time to listen to the younger generation
24 February 2011
Imagine the UK has fallen under the control of a highly efficient dictatorship. Reassuringly the dictator has introduced only one new rule which is that every person has a strict carbon ration. Overnight the new regime has somehow installed magic meters to measure our use.
Puzzled, we have a shower aware the meter is ticking. The meter speeds up when we tuck into our bacon sandwich – are bacon butties really that carbon intensive? The drive to work inevitably hits the meter, but we hadn't accounted for the empty home diminishing our carbon allowance due to sloppy use of those heating timers.