A dedicated environmental activist is travelling overland from Wales to Brisbane to be a bridesmaid at her friend's wedding. Barbara "Babs" Haddrill, 28, is undertaking a six-week trip by train, bus and boat to avoid carbon emissions from aircraft.
She will head back using the same means after performing bridesmaid duties in a homemade dress.
"I feel like I have devoted myself to doing what I can to reduce my impact on the environment," she wrote in her blog. "If I flew to Australia, I would negate everything I have done for the last six years and that would seem sad."
Ms Haddrill, who works at the Centre for Alternative Technology in mid-Wales and lives in a caravan, began her journey yesterday, hitch-hiking in a downpour.
She will head by bus to Moscow and take the trans-Siberian railway, before heading south to Singapore, again by train, where she will try to find a boat to take her to Australia.
Trains, boats and buses all have less impact on the environment than air travel, which at high altitudes pumps out harmful greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
You should read some of the comments on her blog, some are hilarious !
3 comments:
why doesnt she just canoe there..?
All the comments on her blog asking her if she knows how much shit a Russian bus kicks out into the atmosphere ... yeah maybe she should row ... good luck to her !
She is just:
1. Looking for attention.
2. Wants to make this trip for a tourist standpoint.
3. Making a full of herself trying to make people think she has any idea what she is talking about.
I'd love to know what the added polution would be if nobody ever got on a plane and everyone drove cars, buses and trains to their destination.
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