IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon has been quoted in The Daily Mail responding to a report which takes aim at booze for causing environmental damage.

Christopher said:

“The shape-shifting temperance movement is always looking for new ways to promote its anti-alcohol agenda.

“The so-called Institute of Alcohol Studies is the successor to the UK Temperance Alliance and its parent charity’s explicit goal is ‘an alcohol-free society.

“Now it is acting as if it were an environmental organisation, presumably to tie in with the COP-27 conference.

“The goal is always the same: higher taxes for drinkers and the stigmatisation of alcohol.”

The full article can be read here.