vilified by campaign groups and even within their own universities. there's an old English saying: "if you stand up in the coconut-shy, they're going to throw at you " So I understand there's going to be some of that, but it gets pretty difficult and pretty nasty and very personal. And I've been death threat sand all sort of things so I'm not doing it for my health. These days, if you are skeptical
about the Litany around climate change, you are suddlely like as if you are a Holocaust denier.
The environmental movement really it is a political activist movement and they have become hugely
influential at a global level. And every politician is aware of that today. Whether you are in the left,
in the middle or the right, you have to pay homage to the environment. In the past month, the global warming campaign has won a great victory: the United States government, once a bastion of resistance, has succumbed. George Bush is now an allied Western governments have now embraced the need for international agreementsto restrain industrial production in the developed and developing world. But is it what cost? Paul Driessen is a former environmental campaigner. My big concern with global warming, is that the policies being pushed... to supposedly prevent global warming... are having a disastrous effect ...on the world's poorest people. Global warming campaigners say it does not harm to be on the safe side; even if the theory of man-made climate change is wrong ,we should impose draconian measures to cut carbon emissions, just in case. They call this the precautionary principle. The precautionary principles are very interesting beast.
It's basically used to promote a particular agenda in ideology, it's always used in one direction only.