In the UK going green is taking a back seat to saving green

Nearly thirty years ago,  Kermit the  Frog once retorted the line “It Ain’t Easy Being Green” in the Feature Film ” The Muppet Movie” but in the United Kingdom and scenes that play out here and around the world, Environmentalism is taking a back seat to saving.  In this article for Times Of London News paper web site         http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4474202.ece

The paper interviews author Julie Burchill of the newbook “Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy” has a few choice word about the leaders of the Evironmential Movement quote

“Environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don’t want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.”

And Michael O’Leary , Cheif Executive Officer of European low cost airline Ryannair says

” the “nutbag ecologists” are the overindulged rich who have nothing better to do with their lives than talk about hot air and beans.”

Researcher and Pollsters are finding environmental issues  is not the top issue the economy and rising prices are.  Even the Politicians there are rarely bring up the environment in speeches and refuse to raise taxes fearing a backlash from the citizenry.

It not just in Brittan, Here in the US  Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama touted his green credentials. But now the nominee talks about saving instead of recycling.
But in the end it the credit crunch and the economy that has prevailed, people are not wasting food, splurging less, which make people more earth friendly. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are you listening !