UK: The Power of the Green lobby

[Benko]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... lobby.html

Writing for The Telegraph, the former environment secretary, Owen Paterson, says he is proud of standing up to the green lobby.

On the green lobby: "However, I leave the post with great misgivings about the power and irresponsibility of – to coin a phrase – the Green Blob.

By this I mean the mutually supportive network of environmental pressure groups, renewable energy companies and some public officials who keep each other well supplied with lavish funds, scare stories and green tape. This tangled triangle of unelected busybodies claims to have the interests of the planet and the countryside at heart, but it is increasingly clear that it is focusing on the wrong issues and doing real harm while profiting handsomely."

My favorite part:  "I soon realised that the greens and their industrial and bureaucratic allies are used to getting things their own way. I received more death threats in a few months at Defra than I ever did as secretary of state for Northern Ireland."

Because IRA terrorists could be reasoned with.  environmentalists, not so much :-)

See also recent  thread on emotion over-riding logic.

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