This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Sunday, 26 September 2021
A Safe Pair of Hands?
The UK PM, in a somewhat patronising speech to the United Nations, said "It is time for humanity to grow up" (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2021/sep/23/boris-johnsons-climate-speech-annotated-what-he-said-and-what-he-meant). He compared humanity to an adolesecent, "just old enough, to get into trouble". The PM maintained "We trash our habitats again and again with inductive reasoning that we have got away with it so far, and therefore we will get away with it again." Just a bit of background on this sage. Whilst at Oxford University (and consequently well into his 20's), the PM was a member of the notorious Bullingham Club. The specialities of this all-male group included a) inserting their privates into the mouth of a pig's head and b) trashing any eating or drinking location they gathered in. Fortunately for the pig, it was dead. Their parents also paid for the damage, preventing any prosecutions of club members. The PM also came to power by advocating leaving a club (the EU), whose rules he was determined not to follow. He now would like everyone to agree to follow rules at COP26 in Glasgow, to save the planet from climate crisis. The PM also quoted Kermit the frog (as you do). To misquote Kermit "It is easy being pretend green". So, punk, do you feel lucky?
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