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Talk Breakfast

Carbon Offsetting, An Adventure, And Tracking Devices

Talk Breakfast

Ricky Freelove

News, Labour, Reform Uk, Immigration, News Commentary, Current Affairs, Conservatives, Daily News, Government, Uk News, Politics, Debate, Phone In, British News, Speech Radio, Talk

4.3763 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Elton John has asked people to stop criticising Harry and Meghan for using a private jet so frequently. Apparently it is okay because of this thing called Carbon Offsetting, we speak to Anthony Day to find out what that is. Travel Editor for The Independent Simon Calder is going on an adventure. And is your car tracking everything you do?

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0:00.0

Across the UK, online and on DAB,

0:03.2

the Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

0:06.9

The Big Chief with a badge, a cattle prod and a head on a stick.

0:12.0

Dangerous mid-morning debate with the Great Dictator.

0:15.3

The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

0:27.9

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio.

0:29.5

The future is bright, ladies and gentlemen,

0:31.2

we don't need to worry about the climate emergency anymore

0:33.3

because we have a new champion for saving the planet.

0:36.0

Step forward, Mr Reginald Dwight,

0:38.1

otherwise known as Sir Elton John,

0:39.9

a man who cares so much about the environment

0:41.5

that he sent his own private jet

0:43.0

to pick up Prince Harry and his wife, Megan Markle,

0:45.4

and whisk them down to Spain,

0:46.9

where they all sat around and congratulating each other

0:48.6

on how brilliant they were at helping everybody else.

0:51.2

Not only that, but the flamboyance, Sir Elton, also made sure that the flight was in his words, carbon neutral by sending some money to an outfit called Carbon Footbrin,

0:58.6

a limited company based in Islington set up to make wealthy people feel less guilty about fly.

1:03.2

How about you just stop fly? What's Elton gonna do next? Fly over poor parts of the world

1:07.4

and throw money out of the plane at them, perhaps to help them with their poverty problem. It's absolutely unbelievable, is it? Incredibly, Elton says we should leave

1:15.5

Megan and Harry alone because they're doing great things to save the planet, and what

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