{"id":585,"date":"2006-11-17T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=585"},"modified":"2006-11-17T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T17:54:13","slug":"climate-care-and-airmiles-dont-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/11\/17\/climate-care-and-airmiles-dont-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"climate care and airmiles don&#8217;t mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My housemate Helen sent this to Scottish and Southern energy the other day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDear Southern Electric,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your kind letter  (customer account ref 3779898016, QBAY\/ SR999B) asking why I am leaving you. I&#8217;m afraid I must cite irreconcilable differences (and the fact that I&#8217;ve found someone better, who I think takes me seriously). I started to have doubts about the relationship a few months ago, when you sent me a leaflet with a nice picture of a dolphin and a caption about fighting climate change the easy way, alongside an advert for free airmiles. It was your green credentials that attracted me to you in the first place, but I began to feel that the green tarif wasn&#8217;t expressing the real you, and that in fact you are as happy to destroy the planet as the next company if there is money in it.<\/p>\n<p>Then someone showed me an article in the Ecologist magazine, which told me that Ecotricity spent around <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My housemate Helen sent this to Scottish and Southern energy the other day: Dear Southern Electric, Thank you for your kind letter (customer account ref 3779898016, QBAY\/ SR999B) asking why I am leaving you. I&#8217;m afraid I must cite irreconcilable differences (and the fact that I&#8217;ve found someone better, who I think takes me seriously). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-9r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}