Eigg Islanders Mocked

The Isle of Eigg is verging on being the greenest place in Scotland. With their wind turbines, hydro power schemes and solar energy systems, the islanders have got to the stage where they feel they can ship their old diesel generators back to the mainland.

Living with renewable energy has it's ups and downs, of course, as you have to consider whether you have access to power, when you will need it and for how long. Which makes the BBC's story about the islanders using less power (it doesn't say they don't have any electricity at all) due to a lack of rain to power their hydro schemes a bit of a non-story.

I would have read the page, chuckled about my friends who live on the island (as long as the beer is cold, they won't mind!), and moved on.

But then my eye caught the section to the right of the story, the bit where the BBC attempts to fend off criticism of it's Goliath status by linking to other websites carrying the same news:



It turns out the link is to a comment piece about the island by James Delingpole, climate-change denier and caveman-technology advocate.

And he has indeed entitled it "Ha ha ha ha ha!"

Delingpole openly mocks the islanders for attempting to wean themselves off of backyard generators, a power source I'm sure he's never had the displeasure of having to use.

He'd rather have the lower orders set fire to some rocks in a big building miles away from him, in order to keep him in the manner to which he has become accustomed.

Like I said, Caveman Technology and Caveman Thinking from a Neanderthal.