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Welcome to the age of the eco-martyr. God help us | Catherine Bennett

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Nov 08, 2009

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Nothing will harm climate change campaigners as much as a judge decreeing that the green movement is a faith

Following Mr Justice Burton's ruling that green beliefs should enjoy the same protection as religious ones, many committed recyclers will have been wondering how green you have to be to become unsackable. Would buying Duchy Originals do the trick? Or would you need to be sustainably crucified or burned at the stake, prior to receiving compensation? In recitations of his own creed, Tim Nicholson, who won the ruling allowing him to claim discrimination, sets the bar rather lower.

"I no longer travel by aeroplane," he told an employment tribunal, by way of piety credentials. "I have eco-renovated my home, I try to buy local produce, I compost my food waste, I encourage others to reduce their carbon emissions and I fear very much for the future of the human race, given the failure to reduce carbon emissions on a global scale."

Don't we all? Or intend to, anyway? Give us an eco-renovation, but not yet. That's religion for you, isn't it? We stray, occasionally,

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