Plastic bags - I may be correct.
At least according to the government advisors.
This is what frustrates me about so much of the environmental movement. So little thought, just bandwagon jumping and anti-progress neo-puritan rhetoric. This does not help solve the problems we have, if anything it makes them worse.
Thankfully there are considered people in environmentalism, I just wish people would listen to them more.
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March 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Hi
Just came across your blog. I like it - it’s nice to see a good critical environmental blog. As I said on Tim Worstall’s blog, I want to see more evidence on this plastic bag issue really. M&S strike me as bandwagoning somewhat.
I like the Fair Trade article as well. If you don’t have it, I strongly recommend getting hold of “The Undercover Economist” by Tim Harford. There’s a chapter where he talks about Fair Trade coffee, and describes how it’s basically been used as a scam to get customers to pay more more coffee, while very little of the excess goes back to fair trade farmers.
I’ve added you to the blog roll at http://www.layscience.net
Martin