Employers in the U.K. have just learned that there's a word for discrimination against a person based on their earth-conscious, tofu-eating ways: "greenism." And firing someone for their environmental views is just as illegal as firing someone for their religious or philosophical beliefs, according to a court ruling. Tim Nicholson, former head of sustainability at property firm Grainger Plc, claims he was laid off because of his views on climate change and the environment. A judge said Nicholson could take Grainger to the Employment Appeals Tribunal over the layoff, but Grainger challenged the ruling on the grounds that climate change is a scientific and not philosophical viewpoint. However, that challenge was overturned, according to the Telegraph:
In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion ...
