The only environment issues I'd be interested in hearing more about from politicians would be the problems of waste, landfill and the packaging the food comes in.
Its first area of focus will be the problems of obesity, diet and alcohol, working alongside the health secretary's Responsibility Deal Behaviour Change group.
This is the second, and perhaps more serious, consequence of creeping determinism: in our zeal to correct what we believe to be the problems of the past, we end up creating new problems for the future.
In a 2007 speech on the topic, Bernanke, ever the historian, quoted a 1923 Fed report, "The more fully the public understands what the function of the Federal Reserve system is and on what grounds and on what indications its policies and actions are based, the simpler and easier will be the problems of credit administration in the United States".
Unfortunately, Hanna & Associates' alleged tactics may not be the problems of just one rogue firm.
But, there has been a pivotal bright side to all this: with every plant closing, non-union service job replacing it, or market plunge, events that formerly seemed to be the problems of the individual, have now become conflated with the events of society as a whole.
