"Julie Burchill can't stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don't want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, agrees. In an interview with Rachel Sylvester and me, he told us that the 'nutbag ecologists' are the overindulged rich who have nothing better to do with their lives than talk about hot air and beans.
So the salad days are over; it's the end of the greens. Where only a year ago the smart new eco-warriors were revered, wormeries and unbleached cashmere jeans are now seen as a middle-class indulgence.
But the problem for the green lobby isn't that it has been overrun by 'toffs': it's the chilly economic climate that has frozen the shoots of environmentalism. Espousing the green life, with its misshapen vegetables and non-disposable nappies, is increasingly being seen as a luxury by everyone."
-- Alice Thomson, on why "suddenly being green isn't cool any more," over at the Times Online
'non-disposable nappies'(what used to be called by us real folk 'nappies') are seen as the indulgency. There's your screwy thinking right there. How very very stupid.
ReplyDeleteThe real question when it comes to ecological matters is not to look at who espouses what, but what the empirical truth is i.e. if Al Gore is a hyprocrite or Leonardo is a fool does this stop the icecaps from melting?
These guys are just as big a tossers as any middle class green.