For your today you stole our tomorrow

Letter of the day

- Tom Williamson

I ask the question, are we, as a group of supposedly enlightened 21st century humans, actually regressing to believing (1) religious style dogma, (2) 'piper paid' pseudo-scientific evidence such as smoking does not harm you, (3) outright lies by our political establishment whether from the right or the left, or a combination of all, as perhaps we now only accept that scientific evidence which meets our own belief system.

There is now a political school of thought, usually on the right of politics, that accepts that there are environmental problems which are now becoming apparent but argues that the cost of preventing further degradation of our world is not something that we can afford to put right as it would impinge upon (a) our lifestyle or (b) corporate profits.