Pod tour - what it's like inside the yellow bubble

Posted by jamess — 23 September 2010 at 8:45am - Comments

Watch Leila give us a tour of the inside of the pod - the little survival station we've got setup on Chevron's anchor chain.

The pod has everything you need, bathroom, kitchen, hospital .. and housemates.

We'll get you updates from the pod as soon as we get them, follow us on Twitter, Facebook or GoBeyondOil.org for the latest.

-- James on the Esperanza

Great tour! Leila reminds me a bit of Briget Jones - reporting for Sit Up Britain in crazy places.

Greenpeace is not demanding that all fossil-fuel use cease overnight - if we were then your criticism might be valid. But we're not and it isn't - obviously we are all currently living in the oil age, where most of our fuel and a high percentage of the products we consume come from hydrocarbons and their by-products. It's practically impossible to avoid some sort of involvement with them.

Now, as we understand the science better, we can see that continued profligate use of these resources is storing up massive amounts of trouble for ourselves in the not too distant future - climate change and resource wars over dwindling oil reserves being the two major threats. So what are we supposed to do, exactly? Ignore the evidence and let the world sleepwalk to disaster?

Oddly enough, we've chosen to draw attention to the problems and show the world that there are other options we could choose, which can not only minimise the dangers posed by global warming but make us less reliant on imported energy and boost our economy by helping to develop a hi-tech clean energy industry. Wherever possible we use clean energy sources to help us accomplish this goal, but in the oil age in which we all find ourselves, there are many times when this is still not possible.

Joss

Online Producer

Greenpeace UK

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