Wednesday, May 23rd 2018
CHRISTOPHER BOOKER:
Is the political class’s obsession with global warming rotting their brains?
The Government earned plaudits from the green lobby yesterday for its new plan to crack down on the craze for wood-burning stoves.
As the Mail reported on its front page, the stoves chuck out lethal pollution, particularly from wet wood, and contribute to thousands of early deaths from lung and heart disease.
But hang on!... only recently, the Government and the greens told us burning wood to heat our homes was the best thing we could do for the environment...
this disgracefully wasteful affair is dwarfed by... the conversion of boilers at the giant Drax power station in Yorkshire from coal to wood pellets...
Even the most ardent green activist groups have protested that chopping down millions of acres of forest in America to fuel a system that ends up chucking out more CO2 is an absurd ecological disaster...
Given these horrific facts, why have governments in recent years made wood-burning such a core part of energy policy? ...
The bitter truth is that these fiascos caused by our obsession with wood-burning are just a part of a larger disaster that taints almost every green scheme...
It’s as if the political class’s obsession with global warming rots their brains —
The bitter truth is that these fiascos caused by our obsession with wood-burning are just a part of a larger disaster that taints almost every green scheme...
It’s as if the political class’s obsession with global warming rots their brains —
