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Millions of people around the country have pledged to give up cooling their beverages for the next month and send the ice cubes to the the polar regions to replace the melting glaciers. Using an image of a polar bear asking, "Is your iced tea really necessary?", climate activists hope to name and shame people who continue to cool their drinks. The first ship of ice is expected to leave Southampton for the Arctic next week.
Drinkers were horrified to learn that a piece of ice the size of Albania was being lost every day to climate change. "It's exciting to think you're doing something to save the planet", says David King, 31, as he sips his lukewarm gin and tonic in a London bar. "It's the least I can do". He hopes the Inuits can use his cubes to build igloos.
However, Tory backbencher Sir Evan Moore urges caution: "This climate change nonsense has gone too far. Send off enough ice cubes and you've got an iceberg. Remember the Titanic".
One irate middle-aged driver conceded: ‘As much as I want to punch every weepy teenager glued to the M26, I can’t do it if everyone’s dead. I do get the point they’re making about the collapse of civilization, but do you think they can do it without being so irritating? They say I’m destroying their future, but I take one look at their smug faces and I just want to melt the nearest glacier.
‘I’m sympathetic to their cause, I just wish they’d all get washed away by coastal erosion. Is there anyway we can save the rhino but kill off all the hippies? Maybe if we strangled a few eco-warriors we’d cut CO2 emissions? I’m for saving the whale but can we cut out the wailing that goes with it?’
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