I don't see why it's damaging at all.
The Stern Report was clear that moving to renewables would be expensive, but expensive doesn't mean harmful: the money spent would provide jobs, technology, innovation; and it would, of course, save us from the oil shocks headed our way.

It would also be cheaper than the predicted cost of climate change - a cost which, since the Report, has been revised upwards.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 11:34, Reply)