Environmentalist and writer Mark Lynas reaches for the clichés...

"The Green lobby doesn’t like the idea that the world can be saved by building nuclear power stations. It wants us to chop wood, go back to nature."

It’s a lazy smear. At least we should be thankful he didn’t say we want everyone to go back to living in caves.

We're not the whole of the Green Lobby, but we, like most of the Green Lobbyists we know prefer our trees standing. We're also quite keen on things like offshore windfarms, concentrated solar power, geo-thermal energy and tidal power. Wind, sun, rock and wave perhaps, but hardly low tech.

Maybe Mr Lynas could provide some evidence for his assertion, but we're inclined to think he's resorted to a different natural product. The straw man.