IT HAS become increasingly popular to deride the negativity of environmentalists, but before policy-makers dismiss them as an incurable bunch of wailing Cassandras it is important to remember that Cassandra was right when she foresaw the destruction of Troy.
Climate change too is both real and nasty. Yet in spite of warnings of potentially catastrophic global warming from scientists and the green movement, the Kyoto protocol barely survived the last international climate conference, and most governments’ targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions are inadequate.
In the green camp, things are moving on from saving whales and punishing factories that spew…
