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February 15, 2010  

The logistics industry creates 30% of the UK's emissions. That's a heck of a statement, when you think about it.

As a journalist, I get used to people reminding me that I belong to one the most hated professional groups. Down there with estate agents and politicians, we've recently been joined in the gutter by bankers and England football team captains.

So, to be editing a magazine that promotes the destruction of the world to such a degree puts me in an extremely low position. If I were a football team, I'd be Chester.

In my defence, I can point to the many articles I have written or published promoting environmentally friendly technologies or methods.

Those of you (us) who berate the logistics industry for being unnecessarily carbon-hungry would probably be the first to complain when their milk isn't on the doorstep at 6am, or that widget they ordered online at 6pm isn't on their doormat the next morning. As a society that is driven by consumerism, we will never eliminate the need to move things. All we can do is to look at the most clever ways of doing it.

It is a challenge that I know the industry will rise to.