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Saturday 16 October 2021

A world where sanity is an outlier



COP26: Minister says nations that don't attend climate change summit will be 'outliers' - amid report China's Xi set to snub Glasgow gathering

An unidentified British source is quoted in The Times as saying: "It is now pretty clear that Xi is not going to turn up and the PM [Boris Johnson] has been told that."

Entertaining in a way, because that's the primary climate change message - don't be an outlier. As it was and still is with the coronavirus debacle. Totalitarian politics in other words - or just 'politics'.

5 comments:

Sam Vega said...

Added piquancy in the fact that the "outliers" are the ones allegedly responsible for far more environmental damage than we are. We are "mainstream", although we are the tiny unrepresentative elites of those countries dumb enough to hand our future to the Chinese.

Doonhamer said...

As opposed to an out n out lier?
But look at all the jet fuel un- burnt that Xi and his no doubt huge contingent would have burned.

DiscoveredJoys said...

So - if China is the major polluter - then it follows that people should buy as little from China as possible. There are a lot of people (including me) who would find that unpalatable.

Tammly said...

Do you think that de Pfeffel Nutnut's proclamation (a reflection of many calls of the eco left), for Britain to be a 'world leader' in the move to Net Zero is really a continuation of the 'elites' idea of British Prestige abroad? And has about or even less relation to the actuality?

A K Haart said...

Sam - yes, without China there is no point to it all even if the climate narrative is accepted. It has become the most glaringly obvious weakness of the whole game.

Doonhamer - and from that perspective Xi is more responsible than the rest of the world.

DJ - I would find it unpalatable too. Probably not practical these days anyway.

Tammly - it could be the idea of British Prestige abroad. As if prestige is now seen as purely a PR matter with almost no connection to the real world.