Well, Andrew Marr gets it, even if Clive James doesn't. In an interview to publicise his new book and TV series, The Making of Modern Britain, Marr tells The Times that the greatest challenge facing politicians today is the impact of climate change.
On our security, on migration, on food, on the natural world, on how we are all going to live. And no politician will talk about it.
Marr goes on to compare it to another great looming disaster from which many people averted their eyes.
I think there is a parallel with appeasement. In the 1930s, if you wanted to know what was going on in Nazi Germany, the evidence was there. But most people didn’t want to listen, they didn’t discuss it, it was far too nasty a subject.
Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and we don't know where
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Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on
its way to Venus, is due to come crashing down on 9 or 10 May
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