Enough?
Dave pointed me at enoughsenough.org, which seems to be a clearing house for right-on campaigns that I for one find somewhat sinister.
The campaigns themselves seem mostly to be climate change-focused, but actually, there's a solid bias among the ads they showcase towards reducing air travel and airport expansion, which looks like either an agenda or just lazy bandwagon-jumping.
And who is/are enoughsenough.org ('a solar powered website' - oh please)? Well apparently, it "was founded by a group of individuals, is completely independent and has no affiliations whatsoever to any political party or business interest".
Says them.
Nowhere is there any indication of who any of these 'individuals' are, so their claim to be unconnected is vague at best, and untestable by any ordinary measure. They've even hidden the details of the domain registrant. I'm automatically distrustful of people who are unwilling to put their names to their causes, except where there's a real danger of violent reprisal, and while Britain's getting worse, it's not there yet. I'm particularly distrustful when they encourage other people to 'join' them without any real undertaking about what they're getting into, or what their details will be used for. Yes, that's right - no privacy policy, despite the fact that they're collecting email addresses. Though a privacy policy provided by a shadowy, anonymous, and unaccountable group is obviously not worth the pixels it's dispayed on. Via a hotmail account, by the way, not even through their own domain, which looks even more dodgy. I wonder if these are 'individuals' who would add objections to identity cards and abuse of personal data to their non-specific area of concern?
And apropos of nothing in particular - the whole site is built in Flash, which given its unfriendliness to assistive technology, is a strange decision for a right-on campaigning group to make. And there isn't even any reason for it to be in Flash - the whole thing could be done in good old-fashioned HTML and look utterly identical.
This all probably sounds like I'm over-reacting, and it's possible that this is just a well-intentioned but dumb effort on the part of some legitimately well-meaning 'individuals'. I have a lot of sympathy with the cause of combatting climate change, and wholeheartedly approve of drawing attention to the general antipathy among governments worldwide towards actually doing anything about it.
But this - I just can't shake my innate suspicion, or that feeling I mentioned up top, that its lack of accountability makes it all rather sinister.