GREEN JEALOUSY

Environmentalists are turning green (with jealousy):

For huge numbers of people in India the imminent introduction of the world’s cheapest car – the Nano – is a boon to families all over the developing world that currently speed around town on overloaded two-wheelers, often with an infant perched precariously on someone’s lap.

Environmentalists, however, have decried the Nano and its low-cost imitators as an impending disaster. ... Last year, the Nobel Prize winner Rajendra Pachauri, who is head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was quoted as saying he was “having nightmares” about the car.

How dare the poor have the effrontery to despoil their “pristine” environment!