| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Sainsbury's Werter Rd Car Park Arrangements | |
| Posted by: | Richard Carter | |
| Date/Time: | 10/01/10 20:40:00 |
| Dear Ms Griffiths, It's easy to rubbish someone else's arguments if you completely distort them into something they haven't said. So, to take two of your points: 1. "Your thread assumes that everyone is physically able to ride a bike or walk." No it doesn't, I argue that "People really need to use their cars less and alternative methods (bus, walking, cycling) more." Note the use of the words 'less' and 'more,' which means a reduction in car use not a total elimination of it. Of course I wouldn't expect people who are unable to walk or cycle (or use public transport) to do so, that hardly, I would have thought, needed pointing out. And yet I have to. 2. "If you cannot plan your general shopping for a week in advance I question your abilities to function in the real world." Obviously, again, it's possible for anyone to plan their shopping for a week (and, thank you, I am perfectly capable of doing so), but the danger is that doing it produces waste, either because food goes off or because you buy things you do not need: see, for example, articles arguing this very point in the Daily Mail (http://tinyurl.com/yfmon4d) and the Daily Torygraph (http://tinyurl.com/ykk9uz4). Oh, and you ask what planet I live on. It's the same planet as everyone else, and it's the one we're busy despoiling by our idiotic, wasteful, unsustainable behaviour, and it's time we realised it before it's too late, if it's not too late already. |