elated article is to be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe whole framing of this issue - including no doubt by the Tony Blair Institute, who I am quite sure hate Ed Miliband and anything to do with the Green agenda - is deliberate.<\/p>\n
They want growth to let the wealthier get wealthier - which is the only success criteria that Tony Blair now knows.<\/p>\n
They like to pretend that growth is the pre-requisite for supplying better public services, which is their current chosen metaphor for trickle-down economics, which we know never has and never will deliver benefit for any person other than the global elite - of which Blair was always so desperate to be a part-\u00a0 because wealth always gushes upwards when this philosophy is espoused, and none goes downwards.<\/p>\n
And we know that none of these people - from Blair to the Telegraph journalists -\u00a0 accept the science of climate change because the denial of science is a necessary condition for their acceptance by the far-right, who loathe everything about its rationality.<\/p>\n
In reality, net zero has to be the epicentre of strategy for one very simple reason. Nothing else guarantees our survival. It is as simple and straightforward as that.<\/p>\n
No ism can prevent climate change.<\/p>\n
No think-tank talking nonsense will halt its advance.<\/p>\n
The Telegraph and all like it can protest all they like, but the flood waters will sweep them away just as they will the rest of us unless action is taken.<\/p>\n
It is action that matters, as I seem to keep finding myself saying.<\/p>\n
And it is inaction that the likes of Blair perpetually propose. They will always do so, provided that inaction delivers for them the dopamine hit that an ever-bigger figure for their own personal wealth creates.<\/p>\n
This is the battle we are in. It is action versus inaction that now matters. Everything else is a sideshow. The sideshows might be fun, but only that action matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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