The most sense I have read in a very long time
Melanie Reid puts the whole eco religion into some sort of perspective.
Long before we are extinguished by global food shortages or raised sea levels, I predict, we are fated to die of boredom, struck down in our prime by the devastating virus 0157eco-smugness. Doctors will be powerless to stop as the bug invades our minds, causing nervous paralysis leading to eventual seizure. We are doomed, for sure, to terminal ennui brought on by environmental righteousness
Don’t do anything else until you go and read the whole thing. Then go out and punch the face of an idiot greenie.
After you have done that, come back in and read Clarkson’s excellent piece about the humble spud and Governments that can’t mind their own bloody business.
In some ways, however, I’d quite like to see unwanted food being loaded on to ships by fair-trade enthusiasts. It would set them against the ecoists, who’d argue that the journey would kill some polar bears. There’d be fighting on the docks. It’d be a hippie bloodbath.
H/tip to the ever present joy in times of sorrow The Free Market Fairy Tales