Beat your greens
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If anyone wondered what I do in my spare time one of my favourite activities is upsetting “greens”.
My main target is not hard core “tree huggers” but mainstream environmentalism as expressed by government ministers and international organisations. I do not attack them for the sake of being contrarian but because I believe what they argue is profoundly wrong and damaging to humanity.
It has now reached the stage where my views are annoying influential people. Last Friday I appeared on BBC World television (broadcast outside Britain) where a top level panel at a United Nations conference in Indonesia responded to my criticisms of the green economy. They included a Nobel peace prize winner, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme, the Indonesian trade minister and the Norwegian environment minister. (article continues below)
Sadly–and ironically–I was filmed at Fund Strategy’s London offices while the greens had all flown to Bali for their jamboree. Nor was I given any chance to respond to their points.
For some reason–nothing to do with me–the BBC billed me as “an ex FT correspondent”. I should of course have been referred to as either the editor of Fund Strategy or alternatively as the author of Ferraris For All–my new book attacking greens.
