During the recent referendum campaign much of what passed for debate on Facebook seemed to consist of greenies saying that anyone who voted leave was automatically supporting the official leave campaign. Of course this is obvious nonsense, and amounted to little more than an attempt by people without a clue what they were talking about to browbeat those who didn't agree with them. Classic ad hominem stuff.
Environment. A much used word by greenies and others. A word with many problems.
A common trope used by greenies promoting the benefits of the EU was to talk about the "environmental protections" that they claimed the EU had introduced. They spread fear about how terrible it would be to leave - assuming that these usually much watered down protections would be lost.
A splendid afternoon and evening yesterday spent with David Taylor going through some of his archive material on the early years of the green movement from 1974 onwards.
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