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I argue in the programme that green campaigners should be very wary of using the urgency of the climate issue as cover to push forward other, agendas - poverty or equality, for example. (You may it find a useful sleep aid).īut I will cut to the chase.

The more patient among you can wait until Sunday 31st, then you will be able to do it the old fashioned way and listen to the programme on the wireless.

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Is that fair? Judge for yourself, listen to it now.Īlternatively, you can read a full transcript here. 'Set up the straw man, conflate lots of ideas and different people's work behind it and deliver your own value laden conclusions as if you were taking the only rational position possible.' 'It's good old fashioned journo trick', reads a comment on one blog. So why is the programme causing such controversy?Ī number of people thought it was plain biased. There have been pointed attacks on her article on the use of religious imagery by environmentalists. This time even the producer has come in for flack. Then there is the usual slew of angry posts on my blog. One described the programme as 'an attempt to catch a currently fashionable vogue for smearing environmentalists'. I've also had a clutch of critical e-mails. I've been called all sorts of things in my life, but that's a new one on me. Yet it led one contributor to the programme to describe me as dangerous. It discusses whether some of the ideological baggage of the green movement can be a problem when campaigning on the climate issue. It asks an admittedly deliberately provocative question - whether the green movement is bad for the environment.īut the actual programme is, I thought, more balanced and nuanced. I'm used to my reports and blogs causing a stir but the Analysis programme I made this week for Radio 4 seems to have been even more incendiary than most.

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