I don't pretend to know how great or small the man made threat is to our environment. Such an admission seems to be almost unthinkable to many politically correct devotees of the current vogue for everything "green."
However, anyone who does presume to know ought to closely question why. There are perhaps 100 people alive today who have sufficient expertise to interpret the science behind the issue. As a result of political grand-standing there has been a kind of unseemly horse-trading going on with these 100 or so individuals. The global warming deniers claim to have more experts in their corner, whilst the environmental lobby say the contrary.
The reality is the scientific community is not as polarised as many politicians and the media would have us believe. None can give a clear unambiguous answer to the question posed by modern political manouvering, namely to what extent is man causing the effects we are currently seeing on our environment, whether its the polar ice-caps or change in average temperature in South East England? The simple reason is that whilst science may search for absolutes, in terms of this specific area of climatology, no such thing currently exists.
It is time to de-politicise the whole issue and get back to what politics should be about...making lives better. Let's leave the science to the scientists.
That said, there is no point pursuing anything other than an eco-friendly policy in Local Government. To do otherwise would be financially disastrous as a result of government penalties imposed on excessive landfill use, lack of recycling initiatives and a whole raft of other climate targets. So love it or loathe it the green agenda makes sense financially even if one disagrees with it on an environmental level.
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