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"Your proposals will destroy the planet". Uh, that's just a bit apocalyptic.

Au contraire. With education comes knowledge of the value of moderation.   Konsumidioten, in the felicitous German ,--(even better than "shopaholics")--are not the highly educated. In fact who do you think both provides most support to environmental groups, and staffs them?

Also not Konsumidioten.