Saturday, 8 November 2025

[Meanwhile:] The Utter Insanity of Right Wing Responses to Ecology.

I hesitate to use "right wing" in the title here, as Jacob Rees-Mogg has not yet "left the left" —if you're willing to categorize the nominally Conservative Boris Johnson as "left" (AND INDEED HE IS)… but, nevertheless… his taste in wallpaper and bookshelves is right wing, so that's the category I'm going to work with here…

The political position of Nigel Lawson alluded to here is that, quote, "carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that warms the atmosphere —but… the UK would be 'crazy' to do anything about it". The single sentence summary I have just quoted is from 2016, and still, it's news: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/global-warming-climate-change-sceptic-nigel-lawson-real-humans-causing-a7307456.html

The similarity to what Charlie Kirk has so recently said (about carbon and climate change) should be self-evident, although it appears here in a different accent and cadence, presented to an audience that is neither more nor less insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fafp3NEZg1g