An authoritative and easy to used resource giving of the effect or our everyday activities is essential if voters are to know enough to influence politics.
I cant find any entries on Wikipedia to match this. To some extent I blame Wikipedia's over emphasis on peer review and official sources. The [Carbon footprint] entry is probably counter-productive as it implies that the quoted sources are more reliable than they are. I fear some of these sources are incorrect, hide their proprietary information or are influenced by politics (i.e. government departments). What I would like to see are lots of entries on Wikipedia like: [the carbon footprint of beef] [the carbon footprint of air travel] [the carbon footprint of a new house] & etc. Wikipedia is the right place for such information to be presented. See more of my criticism here: http://www.brusselsblog.co.uk/is-wikipedia-too-credentialist/ Geoff Beacon P.S. I do make a modest monthly contribution to the Wikimedia foundation. -- Geoff Beacon geoffbea...@sent.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
