3 May

I really admire what Simon Holmes à Court has done with the Climate 200 group. Unlike lobby groups, who line the pockets of existing parties with donations, C200 just offers funds to any independent who wants to promote policies to do something about climate change. C200 doesn’t determine policies, it’s designed to accelerate action on climate change, by bypassing traditional political parties, big recipients of fossil fuel dollars. Climate change is orders of magnitude more dangerous than World War 1 and 2 combined, which we stopped the world to fight. If you don’t believe that, you don’t understand the science, sorry, no matter which half-witted ‘scientist’ you read or saw somewhere, in the pay of fossil fuel companies. It is really the only thing all of our work should be focused on now, if it’s not addressed we’re looking at the end of civilisation itself, it’s that serious. The beauty of action on climate change is that it’s all things that make everybody except a handful of oil-producing countries richer, and removes most forms of pollution (including sound). We’ve burned energy that accumulated over several million years, in only 300 years. It’s fucked up the things that keep us alive.