I don’t think that we serve our children or planet well giving in to the counsel of despair. Tackling it is more akin to an engineering challenge – one we know we can do.
Many high-emitting nations are either avoiding COP altogether or stalling when it comes to committing to carbon targets.
A recent report launching a new coalition explains why we need new technologies that will deliver these at scale.
As the Government ushers us towards net zero, it had better be sure of the science. Unless it’s willing to risk a British equivalent of the Gilets Jaunes.
MPs seem to think ‘it doesn’t affect me, so I’ll think about it later’ when they hear complaints from Generation Rent.
Our five year electoral cycle is driving MPs to compete for short-term green subsidies without questioning the medium-term consequences.
Economic crises have infantilised multiple generations. Our leaders need to give them hope.
Each time rioting is ignored by the police, we move one stop closer to allowing a tyrannical Twitter-dwelling minority to become very powerful indeed.
The ideas of that decade are still with us, staggering around like a zombie in a garish “Global Hypercolor” t-shirt.
Nation states can act decisively when they wish to do so: the EU seems paralysed.
Enough daydreaming about unfeasible and unfunded alternatives on islands in the estuary; enough dithering and delay.
And Tories have known since Thatcher’s time that climate change has to be taken seriously.
The only sustainable route to reducing carbon emissions will come precisely from the sorts of innovation that drive the “fairytales” that she bemoans.
Saving our planet will require a very eclectic bunch of policies. The task calls for moral courage and grinding common-sense.
Backing traditional industries is very far from the electoral liability that strategists fear.