Normally we’d be spluttering in amazement at the woolly thinking from some on the fringes of the environmental movement, but this time we let Richard Jones do it for us.
If the claim that “Rubber tree producers in Malaysia and elsewhere, who are planting trees now in anticipation of harvests in 10 15 years, will be in financial trouble because of nanotechnologies that could make tyres that last longer than cars” is the best the ETC Group can come up with, then thank goodness for Greenpeace.