Climate Change Thwarts Effort to Highlight Climate Change
Oh, the irony: a team hoping to break a land speed record for a wind-powered craft while calling attention to the twilight of the fossil fuel era and climate change has been undone by … climate change, apparently. The Ecotricity Greenbird team had hoped to speed across a dry lake bed in Australia, but the area has been soaked by a summer of unusually heavy rains.
“(I)t’s an irony not lost on us while that while Greenbird is intended to show how the world might be getting around when fossil fuels run out — the changes that fossil fuels are causing to our climate right now appears to be the very thing that has stopped us,” writes Ecotricity founder Dale Vince on his blog, Zerocarbonista.
Image credit: Greenbird
