This is the time for environmentalists to challenge the actions of our leaders and press their demands

I sat in the summer sun a few months ago with Blake Lee Harwood from Greenpeace, idly discussing whether Bush had inadvertently done environmentalists a favour. Kyboshing the Kyoto accord meant people who had never heard of climate change were suddenly discussing carbon trading and greenhouse gases.

Full article: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/23/afghanistan.politics