Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Beware the noxious fumes of eco-extremism
Nick is no skeptic of global warming, but still points out how nasty extremism does not help the environmentalists' cause. This point that he makes at the end is quite important:
The absence of visible improvements sets climate-change legislation apart from every other anti-pollution measure. The Clean Air Act of the Fifties ended London's smogs. If Londoners complained about not being able to burn coal in the new smokeless zones, their councillors could point to the incontrovertible fact that deadly peasoupers had gone...
The prohibitions tackling climate change will stand in stark contrast. They will hurt, but they won't produce observable results.
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