Making Decisions on the Fly

Our occasional journalisitic nemesis George Monbiot, as part of the promotional flurry surrounding his new book, is taking the presidents and directors of big green groups in the UK to task. Are they not working hard enough? As it turns out, they’re working all too hard, traveling all over the globe for conferences and speeches and – you guessed it – emitting that ole devil called CO2 everywhere they go.

Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth responded to the scolding with an appeal to necessity, saying “We do all we can to cut travel but we need to do some flying to make decisions.” It’s not clear why airborne decision making is so essential to running a large organization, but I guess that why all those corporate CEOs also whiz around the world on private jets: lots of important decisions to be made.