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So we have two pretty dumb green ideas this week. One is just ignorant of the current global climate, the other is truly, truly, frightening. Needless to say which is this week’s clear winner.

Dumb Green Idea: BA’s half-full luxury flights

Really, when times are tough, the climate is of imminent concern and both Silverjet and Eos have folded, why would you decide it’s a great time to move into an invisible premium market? In short, BA have decided to launch a luxury-service to cater to the customers deserted by the previous business-class only airlines, Silverjet and Eos.

It’s annoyed environmentalists who point out that, now, every passenger has twice the carbon footprint of the typical passenger. Pretty dumb.

Dumb Green Idea: Eating cats (yes, seriously)

Hot on the heels of Jamie Oliver gassing young chicks and slitting the throats of young lambs, comes this ambitious attempt to make a point by a group of Danish students. Furious with the way food animals were being treated, they decided to eat a cat…and upload the pictures onto Facebook. As reported by the Copenhagen Post (and EarthFirst).

The group, all students at the Danish School of Journalism, had their Facebook accounts closed by the on-line community’s administrators after they uploaded pictures of themselves cooking and eating a cat. The meal had been intended as a way to shed light on the plight of food animals such as pigs and cows, but instead it has animal lovers hissing in protest.

[...] Before ending up on the students’ plates, the main course lived a life as a feral cat. It had been shot by a farmer trying to control the number of cats on his land. In addition to the 30 pictures that have now been removed from Facebook, the group’s profile also included a recipe for a dish called ‘litter box’.

I’ll end with this extremely apt quote from Frederick Nietzsche:

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.