25 July

There are two main stories around climate change. One is that humans have interfered with the Earth’s climate, and the other is that they haven’t. I’d suggest these are actually the same story. Opposites again, opposites aren’t opposite. Both say that the ‘Earth’ is something separate to humans, with the first vainly suggesting we take it a bit easy on the Earth, and the second (even more vainly) saying nah she’s fine, nothing to see here. Climate change is as Jim Lovelock probably tires of trying to explain to people. It’s the planet-sized wake-up call to the fact that we are part of the Earth. It’s not just a lump of rock we live on to be treated more or less gently. Climate change isn’t telling us to ‘fix the Earth’, and it’s not a conspiracy of the Left or ‘utter crap’. We need to get over ourselves, in both directions.