Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says āEmbrace the Mediterranean lifeā. Embrace death, more like it Canāt you leftists understand?
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says āEmbrace the Mediterranean lifeā. Embrace death, more like it Canāt you leftists understand? Mass death is good for you. Reject the woke love of life!
Welcome civilisational collapse! Watch it all burn, then dance in the ashes! This, roughly speaking, is how the dismissal of climate action is now being justified: the argument has shifted from science denial to outright nihilism.
The new incendiary spirit is exemplified by that serial arsonist Allister Heath, editor of the Sunday Telegraph. In a column in the Daily Telegraph last week, originally titled āBritain canāt stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life ā, he argued that āclimate change is realā but āthe war against global warming has been lostā.
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