We seem to have defaulted an approach which will impose unacceptable costs on hard pressed british families, costs that no one was ever really told about. Here is what mr stark had to say about that. I think it set us back. So i think we have moved from a position where we were really at the forefront, pushing ahead as quickly as we could on something that i believe to be fundamental to the uk economy, fundamentally beneficial to the people living in this country, whether you care about the climate or not. A Government Spokesperson said the uk was the first major economy to halve Greenhouse Gas emissions since 1990 and said that record speaks for itself. Mr stark was critical of other parties, too. He said that politicians, across the political spectrum, have a collective fear of talking about climate