COMMENT: 'The more we’re battered by climate change doom-mongering, the deafer we get to serious warnings' - Libby Purves
C4 'satirist' Tez Ilyas hates Boris Johnson and loves Jeremy Corbyn - funny thatMeghan can have power and privacy... just ask Prince Edward's wife SophieClimate change is real, it matters, and every government on earth needs to be persuaded to reduce emissions and — just as critically — to fund and support the scientific solutions which have more chance of saving us than Mr Hallam’s street-theatre hysterics.
Blythe Pepino, its founder, says it is not “rational” to bear children, “if we’re going to be fighting for food in a couple of decades”.Members say things such as: “I can’t imagine bringing children into such a hot, troubled world”, and: “It would be bringing a life into a future that does seem ever more desolate. Every time a friend tells me they’re pregnant, or planning on having children, I have to bite my tongue.
Not everybody wants or needs to procreate, but if you do it is an act of faith, an acceptance of risk, a hostage to fortune but a gift to the future. We need hope.I am no denier of climate change, and would welcome any sharp — and personally expensive — measures to reduce fossil-fuel use by land, air and sea. I was involved in an ultra-sustainable farming experiment for ten gruelling years.
You could argue that all reforms need a ginger group of outspoken extremists to cut through general apathy. Fine.
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