Tory MP says issues like pollution, and biodiversity have been dropped while economic reform has fallen off agenda
The influential Tory MP Zac Goldsmith says the intense focus on climate change in the last decade has encouraged politicians and environment groups to drop key green issues like air pollution, biodiversity and food and avoid reform of the economic system.
"Climate change went too far. A lot of stuff slipped off the agenda. The environment became about carbon and not the environment that you can feel and touch and see. Food, biodiversity, air quality all got knocked off. When we talked about forests we talked about them as sticks of carbon.
See full Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/06/climate-change-other-issues-goldsmith?intcmp=122
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