Sir David Attenborough has spoken of his "desperate hopes" that a crucial climate change summit hosted by the UK this year delivers concrete action – and is not blown off course by the coronavirus crisis.
The 93-year-old said the COP 26 conference in Glasgow carried the hopes of the world, and urged leaders to keep their "eyes on the ball".
Here is an interesting question - how should a chap respond to
Sir David’s concerns without breaching the rules of etiquette? He is very old so does one sneer quite openly? A purist would insist that sneering is never consistent with the rules
of etiquette, but is this true in all cases?
Suppose we recast Sir David’s position -
On the one hand - an absurd fairy-tale about the
weather where nobody has actually been harmed and probably never will be.
On the other hand - a
global pandemic which has already killed almost 5000 people.
Phrased this way, perhaps even the strictest rules of
etiquette allow us a slight sneer at Sir David’s misplaced concerns. A brief curl of the upper lip perhaps.
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"A global pandemic which has already killed almost 5000 people."
The old fool is patron of fake charity "Population Matters", which campaigns for a smaller world population, so he should be pleased about that...
The 93-year-old said the COP 26 conference in Glasgow carried the hopes of the world, and urged leaders to keep their "eyes on the ball".
Let's have lots more conferences, gatherings, and rallies about climate change. And let's see them well-attended by their very elderly supporters. That should definitely sort at least part of the problem.
Well, they won't be able to fly there anyway.
Gitta Thumbelina will arrive by trampoline.
Dave - good point. He ought to know that prosperity will bring about a smaller world population and work for that instead of trying to make the whole world poorer.
Sam - that's sound thinking. They should give climate enthusiasts over 60 some kind of incentive to attend.
Scrobs - yet strangely enough they seem to enjoy lots of flying.
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