Today’s bare legs brought to you all the way from China
Chinese climate campaigners are hoping that bare flesh and underwear can succeed where apocalyptic warnings and international pressure have failed: to promote a low-carbon lifestyle in the nation with the world’s biggest greenhouse emissions.
A group of environmental exhibitionists – none of whom had ever met before – stripped down to their pants and boxers inside a Guangzhou subway carriage yesterday to promote awareness about sustainable consumption.
To the astonishment and amusement of watching commuters, the 20 or so men and women then sat down in their seats and continued their journeys for 40 minutes, reading newspapers and listening to music in the semi-nude.
The bare-legged subway ride was coordinated on the internet and inspired by similar actions in the UK and the US, organised by the Improv Everywhere group. Though small in scale, it is unusual in China, where climate-related campaigns are rare and the police often take a dim view of unapproved public displays of flesh or political activity.
The least the Guardian could have done was have a picture of ladies sitting their in their unmentionables, rather than 3 guys. Sheesh!
Anyhow, the last thing the Chinese people need to worry about when it comes to the environment is globull warming, considering the sorry state of their air, water and land, which are massively polluted. Remember the air quality during the Olympics? That wasn’t from CO2, alarmists, but, good old fashioned pollution.
However, perhaps we can all pretend that we are involved in protesting AGW, and go to work pantsless/skirtless one day soon. What say, y’all up for it?
Thanks to China’s Kill Your Kids policy, they don’t have enough women for such photographs, Teach.
You know, one way to shut down CO2 production in China is to hermetically seal all of those sweat shops, once occupied…