All of our technology is completely unnecessary for a happy life: Bono and Bob Geldof should be campaigning to 'make wealth history', writes Tom Hodgkinson. From the Ecologist, part of the Guardian Environment Network Putting down some of our hi-tech gadgets and hi-octane pastimes might help us make a lot less impact... I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up. The wandering Saddhu with a begging bowl is profoundly eco-friendly, while your Bonos and Geldofs, not to mention your yacht-owning oligarchs, consume enormous amounts of oil. City boys drive around in big cars and snort cocaine, neither of which activities is very planet-saving, and just imagine Tony Blair's carbon footprint. I am not for a second recommending a worldwide 'wealth relief' policy, where we will steal money from the rich... - Chris Baskind