Crisis is a chance to reconsider environment policy

We should use the banking crisis as an opportunity for a change of mind, says Paddy Woodworth

WHAT you environmentalists just don’t understand,” a born-again Christian explained to me amicably on a shuttle from Atlanta to Augusta a few years back, “is that there ain’t a thing we can do for this lil’ old fallen world until Jesus comes again.”

In the meantime, apparently, we can pillage the earth as much we like without worrying about the consequences. The whole place will be cleaned up in a flash by the Almighty, good-as-new, as a fitting backdrop to the Second Coming.