Shelling Out

Well, here's a thing: besides lobbying against the enforcement of international limits on emissions, the greenest government ever has also been happily lending money to the fossil fuel industries. In the trivial matter of keeping the planet habitable, the greenest government ever is adamant that every polluting nation should be responsible for holding itself to account, much as in the rigorously cosy relationship between the Ministry for Profitable Incarceration and the likes of Serco and G4S. In the much more significant matter of maximising corporate profits, the greenest government ever is proud to fall in with the crowd: a spokesbeing huffed that the greenest government ever defines dirty fossil fuel projects as those "producing pollution in excess of international environmental standards." In other words, the greenest government ever is, at a maximum, just about as green as everyone else, provided it cannot get away with being less so. Imagine that.