Into The Red Out With The Green?

摘要

Bye greens,see you in the next boom.' That was the scathing sign-off to an editorial in The Economist in 1991,as the last recession began to bite.It neatly sums up the conventional wisdom that environmental concerns wither in the face of the chill winds of a downturn.Like worrying about the finish to your new kitchen,fussing over green issues is a pleasan indulgence for the good times - but when the crunch comes,you pare everything back to the essentials.