The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[Fred Kadiddlehopper]

This smacks of the same type of desperate, deceptive and spurious "analysis" used in the past by the tobacco industry to demonstrate that cigs and cancer were not linked, and the charts and graphs employed today by climate change deniers. In fact if one follows the money behind these stories I'd bet that the petro-chemical industry is funding this new theme and inserting it into the gullible side of the press stream.

In terms of desperation they might as well trot out that ridiculous old Dow Chemical ad phrase from the 70s:
"Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible."