GREENWASH, WHAT A ROYAL MESS

So Prince Charles tells us we have just 96 months to save the world from environmental disaster. What utter, unashamed tosh.

Seriously, how dare a man with a staff of dozens who drives around in huge cars - with several following him - who jets around the globe constantly and who does all of this on expenses paid by you and me lecture us about the environment.

He also said that economic success comes at an environmental cost which cannot continue. Nonsense.

This is the crux of the Tory vs. Liberal debate which has raged for decades. We can either fear for the future and retrench to a few mud huts - no doubt with Georgian gob-ons to avoid any modernism at all, or we can face up to the issue of environmental change, address it and in the process keep our economy humming along quite nicely. The people fitting solar panels, building wind turbines, designing new cars and better houses don't fear for the future, they're probably planning how to spend the profits from their businesses and in the process they will encourage others to jump onto the bandwagon and their money will start washing around the economy, providing more stimulus for growth and the development of the 'green' economy.

Here's a thought: why not send all the environmental whingers to Alaska now to start planning, while the rest of us get on with what people have been doing for thousands of years - dealing with stuff which comes along and making the best of it.

I'm all for environmental improvements and I try to live a green life but people aren't going to be scared into changing. They must be encouraged to see that it is in their interests and can improve their lives.