At the moment I am reading a book called Scared to Death by
It is a round-up of the great panic-inducing scares we have suffered over the last 20 years from Aids to the latest global warming.
Booker and North postulate that many of the scares have no basis in scientific fact and that often scientists and governments deliberately mislead the public for their own ends be they financial, fame or power.
Today Marks & Spencer has announced that from
We have been told that carrier bags take 400 years to degrade. Now the BBC is running a story claiming: “Campaigners say plastic bags damage the environment. Some 13bn are given free to UK shoppers every year, and they take an estimated 1,000 years to decay.”
Both figures are complete nonsense. Since we didn’t have carrier bags in 1608 never mind in 1008, how can they possibly know?
Soon we will no doubt be reading that carrier bags take a million years to decay and unless we stop using them polar bears will die.
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