Ethical living

George Monbiot's rubbing salt in the wounds of petrolhead air-travellers today. Three Hail Gaias and a special penance on today's Fat Tuesday before Lent. *But* I want some dispensations for recycling, for thoughtful consumerism (farming methods, labour relations, wages, transport miles) and a preference for second-hand shops.

Freeganism (supermarket trash raiding) has great recycling credibility but has bad associations from behaviours allegedly adopted in extremis by starving Mormon polygamous families. 'Made for TV films' in print form- I love 'em. Another related read on Mormon polygamy was Under the Banner of Heaven, which you can compare to Capote's In Cold Blood as a sociological forensic investigation.

This week I'm into investigating Mormonism, a religion/faith that I'd be hard pushed to defend, but who are able to capitalise freely on free-speech legislation while perpetrating a particularly autonomist but racist narrative. One can tie this into a Darwinian behaviour model quite neatly, should one choose.