Eco-Warriors versus Common Sense. Who's Winning?

I have family up in flood-devastated Gloucestershire. I've rung them of course and been pleased to hear that, except for battered blooms and rather soggy cats, they're all ok and existing on copious amounts of home-made Bredon Hill plum wine.
On dry land everywhere, the prophets of doom gather daily to use the phrase "global warming". "It's all mankind's fault" they chime, waving packs of low energy light bulbs. Please, let's get common sense back into all this. The emphasis is in all the wrong places. My family recycle to cut down on landfill sites, not compete against the world's farting and burping cattle or Co2 released by the oceans. I have signed petitions and sent letters to supermarkets begging less pointless packaging... more for health and safety issues than environment. Try opening any blister pack of batteries without nearly decapitating your thumb and forefinger.

I also believe that a few dedicated vans delivering fresh local, seasonal produce is far more efficient financially (and environmentaly) than people leaping into cars to sample the already turning fruit selections bulging in the supermarket fruit and veg aisles. Again, it makes basic economic common sense. Perhaps because I was once in advertising and marketing, I cringe at new bandwagon campaigns, along with this misleading, so-called moral claptrap from politicians and Government-appointed scientists. "Carbon-footprints". Now there's a marketing phrase if ever I heard one.
"Oooh dear missus...mustn't leave your carbon footprint". Actually, what needs to be said in the current climate is, build proper houses and gardens again, preferably not on flood plains and just maybe these blips can be better contained. Also...dodgy subject this...can we please remember that we are an overcrowded Island. Politicians mumbling about new legislation to control our carbon emissions is a smokescreen for a failed, collapsed immigration policy. So how are we doing on the Common Sense front? Recycling paper, for example...makes perfect sense. Stopping the tide of unwanted mailings and door-drops bundling through your letterbox...suddenly you realise, the whole system is having a laugh at your expense. There's a limit to the paper you can recycle. Most plastic coated papers are unsuitable for recyling. But it all helps to fuel your local council tax bill under the guise of "we're getting greener". There's an old saying that says "where's there's muck, there's brass". And holding the eco-friendly ticket is currently earning big business extra billions.
Continuing on the common sense theme. Just about every processed food or household item you buy contains chemical cocktails designed to promote amazing allergies, rashes, toxic overloads.. yet suddenly, the eco-warriors see the cartons as the enemy. Read the labels:...and before you buy any more Coke...or any fizzy drink, look for a nasty chemical sweetener called Aspartemane, banned just about everywhere except in the UK for its suspected carcogenic properties. Mankind's undoubted contribution to world-wide catastrophe actually has very little to do with global warming. Think about it. In the meantime I think I'll open my own bottle of Bredon Hill Plum Wine.
I more than welcome a flood of comments...