les from scotland on environmentalism

Hi I am Les. I live nearby the Grangemouth refinery so I live close to the petro-chemical industry. I've been an environmentalist for a few years now. And although I can say that yes I am genuinely concerned about the climate change issue, I'm even more concerned by the way that environmental groups and non -governmental organisations have become focused on it to such an extent that they don't really talk about anything else. I've noticed that if there's ever a problem it immediately becomes associated with climate change. As a sign of climate change. For instance if there's a flooding, that's put down to climate change resulting in extra rain. It's not attributed to bad flood management practices. I find it's difficult to have any decent debate on general environmental problems like habitat destruction, because there's so much focus put on climate change issues. Saying that “we've got to get climate change under control otherwise habitat conservation is a useless exercise
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