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" Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy. "
Zac Goldsmith
Forgotten
Society
Used
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" Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour. "
Zac Goldsmith
Policy
Green
Right
" While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market. "
Zac Goldsmith
Red
Political
Giving
" I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues. "
Zac Goldsmith
Job
Small
Conservative
" GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to. "
Zac Goldsmith
Food
Environmental
Control
" Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it. "
Zac Goldsmith
Reach
I Can
Great
" I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career. "
Zac Goldsmith
Eye
Private
Career
" The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers. "
Zac Goldsmith
Food
Animal
Country
" Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity. "
Zac Goldsmith
Better
Airport
Answer
" Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion. "
Zac Goldsmith
Driving
Will
School
" If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity. "
Zac Goldsmith
Stop
Places
Need
" In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London. "
Zac Goldsmith
Need
Children
America
" Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S. "
Zac Goldsmith
Right
Food
Genetically
" I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term. "
Zac Goldsmith
Think
Sight
Long
" We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising. "
Zac Goldsmith
Green
People
Environmental
" We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment. "
Zac Goldsmith
Children
Green
Value
" If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.' "
Zac Goldsmith
Enough
Lost
Car
" Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does. "
Zac Goldsmith
Through
Everything
Thread
" Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes. "
Zac Goldsmith
Environmental
Politics
School
" There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions. "
Zac Goldsmith
Country
Good
Belief
" If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful. "
Zac Goldsmith
Doing
Difference
Time
" The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special. "
Zac Goldsmith
London
Things
Parks
" I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good. "
Zac Goldsmith
Nature
Book
Giving
" Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices. "
Zac Goldsmith
Find
World
Religion
" Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties. "
Zac Goldsmith
Science
Service
Late
" 'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains. "
Zac Goldsmith
Punishment
Green
Improving
" A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns. "
Zac Goldsmith
Health
Number
World
" I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference. "
Zac Goldsmith
Want
Horse
Make A Difference
" Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.' "
Zac Goldsmith
Human
Long
Science
" 'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost. "
Zac Goldsmith
Business
Happy
Money
" You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags. "
Zac Goldsmith
Turn
Law
Know