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On Apr 11, 8:47=A0am, "Simon Mason"  wrote: > Story of an Irish reporter who tried commuting on an electric bike, to ge= t > fit ??, and "save the planet".

We've had such a lot of this "We're trying to save the planet" from those who are actually just promoting socialism etc that many ordinary people now use "saving the planet" interchangeably with "being more socialist" without even thinking about whether what they're advocating is *really* saving the planet (or even reducing carbon emissions, which may or may not save the planet) or not.

It's just another example of a worthy, important cause being hijacked by those promoting a useless cause in an underhand way. Socialists hijack the environment; car-haters (who are quite often socialists as well) hijack causes like the environment, safety and cycling. Both sets of people are too spineless to simply promote their cause as it actually is without hiding behind some other cause, presumably because they know that they haven't got the slightest chance of converting most people to their deranged point of view by being honest and up- front (and thank goodness for that).

Saving the planet is a really important thing. Unfortunately the very phrase "saving the planet" now makes people roll their eyes and immediately suspect that they're being taken advantage of in some way. This is entirely the fault of those wankers who have decided to take a decent cause and use it for their own ends, and they should be utterly ashamed. But of course they're not.