One Citizen's Pledge

I guess I am a fairly typical western male. I have a car and I drive it: a twenty year old Honda station wagon that get about a thousand kilometers a year put on the odometer, virtually all either at night or on weekeds, and defintiely not in rush hour traffic. I keep out of ruch hour not because I am an environmental hero, but because I just hate the hassle. Better than that, I have also orgnaised myself virtually all of my life as a "low-car" environment. Of course sinc eI lievc ein Paris with one of the =wrold's better pbulic trnapsortation system I do not have to be eigther a hero or a genious to be if not car free, at least "car-lite".

And since I have worked all my adult life on issues of sustinabilty, I am rather consious of my envorimental footprint. Thus I live in a realitvely small appartment with excellent insulation, like it cool in the winter anyway and don't have airconditioning (not much of an accompishment in my termparate city). Also since I gave up eating meat a year ago, I have not been killing many methane rich cows or livestock. Plus no coutnry house, no vacations in far away places, and pretty asisduosu use of the leading edge of information technoligy to assidosuly avoid unnecessary travel.

I bore you with this typical profile, because I think that it is in many ways just that, quite typical. And as you can imagine, I am rather satisfied with my low energy/low poluution life style and a bit critical of my colleauges who work on issues of sustianbilty but are flagrantly not that in their personal lives. Thsu when I sat down to

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