David Bates Financial Adviser

There has been a lot written in recent days, here in the UK, that Climate change taxes “green taxes” are being levied under false pretences. As I do not subscribe to the theory that we humans are causing the climate change by our own activities, on many grounds that I will not go into here, I tend to agree that many “green taxes” only serve to fill the treasury coffers and do not help the situation. Climate change has been around ever since this universe was created. The UK was once covered in ice and snow, but no-one (if they had been around at that time) would have ever imagined that one day there would be green fields, warm summers etc. Just as King Canute could not hold back the sea to prove how powerful he was, Gordon Brown and co. cannot do anything to stop the immense natural force that is nature. Perhaps in tens of thousands of years, humans will be extinct like many of the species, that have disappeared because the environment did not suit them. Does it really matter what we do for future generations, when our life span here is only 80 years on average??