The Farnborough Air Show

Last week we got the 'cheap seats' at Farnborough Air Show (ie Sandee's car in her friends work car park just outside the Airodrome).

I was torn between being impressed with displays of Airobatics, and concern for the environment as shed loads of smoke and carbon were pumped out and used just for the sake of, basically, showing off... and the fact that most of what was being shown off was our military muscle didn't help.

Call me an idealist, but it strikes me that if we cancelled international armed conflict and stopped having wars then our carbon emissions would radically drop- solving two of the worlds major problems with one throw. Mind you... how many people would be made redundant if we did that?

Cynical? Idealist? or just sad?