The Guardian We have accused Virgin Galactic’s new spaceport of the Sin of LEED Green Buildings That Are Laughably Inappropriate , asking “what is the point of being “”both sustainable and sensitive to its surroundings” when your purpose for being is neither?” Now Leo Hickman in the Guardian calls them out for

the ride itself. He questions their claims that “every astronaut is an environmentalist,” that “viewing earth from space would transform people’s attitudes to the environment.” Hickman suggests that they watch a David Attenborough documentary, or perhaps the Discovery Network, instead. …

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