It is no coincidence that the latest shocking analysis of climate change shows that we have to do far, far more and even if we do all that there is no preventing appalling damage. Yet certain newspapers decided to pre-empt the news with scare stories about the cost to households of implementing green measures.
That is because a Venn diagram of Brexiteers and climate change deniers would be almost a perfect circle. What makes these people so confident that they know far more than experts who have studied subjects for decades? Many seem incapable of even basic maths or scientific knowledge, let alone realism or practicality. Can’t they see the real world around them, or are they just arrogant?
I am afraid that they just see another reality, one in which there are conspiracies against them and their interests, a changing world they cannot cope with and a better world available to those with enough faith.
For them, we are the blind fools.
Send for the men in white coats.
Maybe those within this perfect Venn circle should be among the 1 million that Elon Musk wold like to join him living permanently on Mars? Talk about a triumph of faith over - well, just about everything ...