Ethical shopping: just another way to show your wealth?

See excellent article from Monbiot here - he says much of what I've thought for a while.

Photo: a couple of years back I got to be one of the first in the country to see this car - it is the first production car to run on bioethanol (see blog entries elsewhere on the problems of that) and lets face it it is still a car - this is not going to lead to 90% cut in emissions by 2050.