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From: blp Category: Art Date: 21 August 2007 Time: 08:15 AM Review: There was a nice response to this persecution of the poor line on the Guardian CiF pages the other day. Someone poor piped up to say he'd never heard so many people speaking up for his class, adding, presumably, the next time the poor go on strike, they'll be back to being ungrateful, work-shy social security scroungers. Anyway, a lot of the people who live near Heathrow and will be made homeless by the third runway are poor. Even more to the point, in relative terms, globally, virtually anyone flying from the UK is rich and it's the really poor people in developing countries who are going to be hit hardest first by climate change. George Monbiot's book Heat, which I've bigged up here before, is about how we can basically maintain the standard of life we already enjoy, just change the infrastructure. The only thing he can't work out how to save, no matter how hard he tries, and he does try hard, is flying. It's that or the planet, you globetrotters.