Greenies form new pressure group

HAVING SCREAMED for years about the dangers of green house gases (mainly water vapour) specifically carbon dioxide, the Greenies have been hoist with their own petard by the uncomfortable (for them) fact that only nuclear energy has a hope in hell of producing power without having a " carbon footprint" the size of a Yeti's size fourteen clodhoppers. No matter. A local bunch have now formed an anti-nuclear group comprising 14 non-governmental organisation and community groups ( plus several individuals). Wittily calling themselves CANE ( Coalition against nuclear energy) these enthusiasts plan to oppose the expansion of the local nuclear energy industry. No doubt they are busily insinuating themselves into the good books of the local media , adding to the dial-a-quote sources so beloved of lazy scribes. Spigot wonders if anyone else has noticed that these people, while claiming to be "progressive and left wing" if not revolutionary, are actually the most conservative of reactionaries. After all, they do not want change. Far from it, they want everything to stay the same and preferably march backwards. Backwards for everyone else, that is. They will still be able to fly everywhere to conferences. They will be able to stay in leafy suburbs with all mod cons. The rest of us, according to them, will have to change our lifestyles. All aspirations to a better standard of living are condemned by these latter-day Puritans.