How to kick the poor when they are down

Apparently, "posh greens are hurting the poor".

Matt Ridley from The Times is quoted in MoneyWeek, viz:

Are today’s greens – typically younger, posher, more female and 
better-educated than the average voter – really as selfless as they make  out? asks Matt Ridley. “Cutting through the spin” of the latest IPCC  report, the likely outcome is that the world will be 0.8-1.2 degrees  warmer by 2100. By then, the OECD estimates the average person will  be earning 300%-600% more in real terms, “enabling posterity to buy quite a bit of protection”. Yet to prevent possible harm to wealthy  people in the future, we support policies that fall heavily on today’s  poor. “Subsidies for renewable energy have been trousered mostly by  the rich and raised costs of heating and transport disproportionately  for the poor.” Biofuel use has raised food prices, killing about 190,000  people a year. Most conservationists now recognise that “sustainable  intensification”, which uses as little land as possible for crops and  energy, is a “key ingredient of environmental protection”. Yes go  organic, but “don’t pretend there’s anything morally superior about it”.

Here, here!

Very easy to have an environmental conscience when you have a full wallet and are well fed.