Act now to keep the love in a cleaner air

Perhaps even Hugh Grant gets gloomy
 when he thinks about climate change. 

And so another Love Actually season has come and gone. How we loved the movie, the devilishly cute Hugh Grant and his optimistic "whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport". The excitement in our friends' voices as they related their plans for a three-week overseas trip was similarly infectious.

But then it was back to reality: eating plum pudding on the hottest Christmas day in 18 years. Like Grant, I try to be happy with holidaymakers' good fortune but it is hard not to feel churlish when you do some calculations. My friends' white Christmas in London, along with the international flights nine million Australians make each year, all make a small but significant contribution to global warming.

Read Lesley Walker’s piece in today’s Melbourne Age - “Act now to keep the love in a cleaner air.”