It’s Monday, the trains are stuffed and your feet are wet, so let’s start with some good news: the worst-case scenario has been averted. It was not so long ago climate scientists were warning that Earth – the only known place in the visible universe you can live/watch Matt Hancock eat marsupial genitalia – was set for warming of four to five degrees celsius by century’s end.
That would have been bad. Like, to borrow the old Barry Cryer gag, don’t-bother-buying-green-bananas bad. The fact that we have likely averted this apocalyptic-adjacent outcome is not happenstance. This was our future, had emissions continued to rise unabated. But thanks to a political awakening, the rapid rollout and falling cost of renewables, we can look forward to something better.
