Where's the beef with a greener future that also makes us happier and healthier?

The Committee on Climate Change has shown that decarbonising is not only affordable but highly desirable

Few crises come with a users' manual. The government's official climate advisers, the Committee on Climate Change, have come close, however, with a new 1,000-page tome setting out a blueprint for how Britain can decarbonise its economy and cut emissions to virtually zero by 2050.

The committee's green manifesto, published last week, brings to heel the two most pervasive myths that climate deniers have set to stalk Britain's climate ambitions. The first is a menacing right-wing imagining of economic hardship in which the eye-watering costs" of green investment collide with a slowdown in productivity and growth. This is a fallacy easily disproved.