Der Spiegel’s Moment of Clarity: ‘Is Environmentalism Really Working? Not delivering the promised result’ — ‘Environmental measures are expensive and don’t have much effect’
Biofuels have led to the clear-cutting of rainforests, plastics are being burned rather than recycled and new generation lightbulbs have led to a resurgence of mercury production...a closer look at environmental measures reveals that they're expensive and don't have much effect. German environmental standards are so high already that it would require an enormous expense to achieve further improvements'
