Hard-up UK puts climate change on back burner

Editor’s Note: As Europe descends into a protracted recession and the jobless economy continues its downward spiral, the political leverage once offered to proponents of the fabled ‘green economy’ based solely on state hand-outs- is disintegrating before our eyes. Add to this expectations of yet another record-breaking winter and we have a climatist movement on its last legs. 

Tom Bawden
The Independent
November 7, 2011

Britain’s carbon emissions grew faster than the economy last year for the first time since 1996, as a cash-strapped population relegated the environment down its league of concerns and spent more money keeping warm, according to a new report.

 

This article was posted: Monday, November 7, 2011 at 10:30 am

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