George Monbiot blogs about the fight against plastic bags being a feel-good-fix: Because dealing with plastic bags is easy. Easy for the government, easy for retailers, easy for shoppers. It threatens no one, makes money for the shops (if they charge for their bags) and ensures that everyone feels better about themselves, while continuing to trash the biosphere just as we did before.
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/04/08/plastic-fetish/
Found the reference to Monbiot reading an old BBC article regarding his thoughts on cap and trade as being "grossly unjust" since (cap and trade) will allow polluters to buy their way out of their responsibilities.
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