IT TAKES a particular kind of environmental policy to irk industrialists and greens alike.
The draft REACH regulation, which European parliamentarians voted for by 407 to 155 on November 17th, contained more than 1,000 proposed amendments, of which fewer than 300 survived.The result pleased neither industrialists, nor greens.
Nevertheless, there is no sense in expecting modern aquaculture to emerge immediately as a perfect food supply that pleases everyone from animal lovers and greens to economists and industrialists.
"Thank you for killing the U.S. windmill industry," wrote a reader from Chicago at Green Inc. "Thank-you, U.S. industrialists and financiers, for having us buy these things with financing and grants emanating from money borrowed from China".
Spider-Man's nemesis in the film, the Green Goblin, is a rich industrialist who conducts an experiment on himself to win a government contract and then discovers that along with chemically induced superpowers, he has acquired a malevolent streak he cannot control.
Neville has a knack of acquiring influential acquaintances, and is also close to Dale Vince, the former New Age traveller turned eco-centric industrialist who is bankrolling Forest Green Rovers' attempt to be promoted into the Football League.
He denies reports that he wants the foreign ministry if a Red-Green coalition emerges next September, but gives every sign of practising for the job.Bit by bit the Greens have become a party yuppies are willing to vote for and which industrialists (especially those in the ever more lucrative environmental technology business) like talking to.
One famous portrait of the German industrialist Alfred Krupp, taken in both black and white and in a sickly green colour variant in 1963, shows a Faustian character with a shadowy jaw resting on bear-sized clasped hands, against a backdrop of factory trains.
Campaign money has poured in; the Koch brothers, conservative industrialists, are spending for Mr Gardner and Mr Udall is backed by Tom Steyer, a green Californian billionaire.
Climb up the steps to the Ashton memorial, a 50-metre green dome-topped folly sometimes called Lancaster's Taj Mahal – it was commissioned by a wealthy industrialist as a symbol of his love for his late wife.
