Do nothing? You cannot be serious

Climate change sceptics want more evidence. But this is a completely irrational view

“What would Jesus Drive?” is my favourite American bumper sticker, an unbeatable combination of earnestness and hypocrisy. If Jesus is a New Puritan, He presumably pedals a bicycle, revelling in slowing everybody down. If He is a Crunchy, he must drive a Prius, in an unbleached hemp shirt. If He’s an eco-apocalypsist, He’s on the hard shoulder with an “End is Nigh” placard, ignored by everybody.

It is fashionable to say that the doom-mongers have tapped into the superstitions of a credulous public. My colleague Matthew Parris put this beautifully last Saturday when he argued that “eco-apocalypticism runs powerfully with the grain of the collective human unconscious”. This is highly amusing to those of us who have waited ten years for anyone to take the slightest notice of climate change. There is an important truth in what Matthew says, but it should take him in a different direction.

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