Iain Dale commented on David Milliband’s poor showing on yesterday’s Today programme.

I think there are some poignant questions that politicians should answer before we go too far down the route towards becoming environmentalists:

1) Several studies have shown that the cost-benefit ratio of tackling climate change is lower than many other worthy causes for humanity. Would it not be more sensible to tackle those with our hard-earned money?

2) During the late 1940s and the 1950s global temperatures flattened out — this despite the rapid growth of the Japanese, Russian and American economies as well as the development of jets. Should we wonder whether anthropological influences on the climate’s undeniable change are less significant than we think?

3) If politicians on the left seek to control individualism by using environMENTALISM there’s a risk that people will start treating it like a new socialism. We, on the right, must make it clear that avoiding damage to the environment is not a left-wing issue and that the left-wing solutions to climate change are dangerous and, often, counter productive (see the pressure on cars vs. the pressure on aeroplanes).


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