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Jet-propelled greenwashing
We had to destroy the village to make it a global village |
JMG |
05 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The job of the PR industry: comforting the comfortable, afflicting the afflicted. Now on to protecting the feelings of the poor maligned air travel industry: As part of the makeover, there's a short in-flight video, titled 'Flying's a Wonderful Thing,' that has been produced to ease consumer guilt over plane travel, and brochures have been printed. 'Air transport made the global village a reality,' one pamphlet says. |
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| Topics: air travel, green living, lying liars, travel (all these topics) |
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