This morning's lead story in the UK's Independent trumpets a landmark ruling that allows employees holding "green" views to sue for unfair dismissal:
"Employees who raise concerns about their company's environmental practices won the right to legal redress yesterday after a judge ruled that green beliefs deserved the same protection in the workplace as religious convictions."
Elsewhere, Nobel Laureate Al Gore, stung this week by criticism in the New York Times and elsewhere over his playing the role both of advocate for the belief in global warming as well as investor in cap-n-trade schemes, struck back yesterday by launching a media campaign... in the UK.
Gore, who's been labeled on blogs a green "profiteer," appeared on BBC's flagship "Newsnight" interview program, as well as BBC Radio 1's morning news program.
One wonders... will green advocates under fire around the world make their appeal to the UK media, and in UK courts, much as do libel complainants?
Read the Independent story HERE.
To read the NYT's surprisingly skeptical turn about Gore's role of preacher and profiteer, go HERE.
To watch Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman "turn up the heat" on the Nobel Laureate Gore, view on i-player HERE. (May not be available at this link outside the UK. If not, persist, it's delicious.)
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