I think I may as well show my opinion on this matter.
As far as LUST go, I don't feel they fully represent the whole of fan base particularly well, very opinionated and biased because realistically only people who have the same beliefs as Gary Cooper will join and that is who he will represent. Now of course this was always likely to happen because you can't realistically expect to be able to represent a million people accurately especially when it only has 10,000 or so members (I have no idea how many members there are incidentally).
I don't really agree wholeheartedly in their opinions and he (Cooper) does try to make LUST seem more important than what it is by stretching facts slightly, for example he clearly said that he had contacted the potential buyers before GFH came in and GFH replied saying they had never spoken to them before. That was a big low point for LUST and was unnecessary to even mention even if they had contacted them, why boast about it and just do what you think is right rather than trying to show everyone what you are doing it right. They don't really effect the club in anyway and whether that is there fault or the club's fault I don't know.
Having said all that, I think it is important for a club this size to have a respectable fanbase club and they are the closest thing to it and should try to continue to grow and become more effective.
On the global warming thing (which I have realised is very hard to communicate it well over the internet), I'd like to think I'm quite educated on the matter given that I'm in the engineering industry and a major part of what we do has to have huge environmental considerations, I also did a class on environmental studies at uni.
Now there has never been any concrete evidence that global warming exists or rather is implemented by humans and more and more scientists are saying that they are starting to believe that our impact on global warming is very minimal. My opinion is also that our impact on the globe is minimal and is far more restrained to local areas and impacts humans more than the earth. I think it is quite big headed of ourselves to believe that we, an animal, can effect the world in such a big way. Thats not saying that disasters don't cause difference in air temperatures or oxygen quality which at the end of the day effects ourselves more than the planet but they are far more local to the disaster and don't spread worldwide to cause a "global warming" effect.
GH is in fact right in saying that the weather naturally cycles. But in fact if you look at the world's temperatures over thousands of years or millions of years you will see a sin graph which accurately shows cycles. So I don't think we have anywhere near as big an impact as some people would have you believe (on a global scale that is).
I am still mindful of the environment (given my job) but the bigger issue is sustainable measures rather than global warming anyway, for example solar, wind and hydro power is far more sustainable than other power sources because they are never ending supplies.
Anyway, probably far more of an opinion than any of you wanted to know
