This is cause for celebration, but it shouldn’t hide the reality that with more than 8 tons per person per year, the UK is in the top 5 most carbon-emitting countries. The country has significant agriculture or industry can justify such a highly polluting regime.

In truth, the UK has horrendous insulation and burns a staggering amount of gas to heat houses made of pasta stainers and wet cardboard; people drive their ICE cars everywhere… There are simple measures that should have been mandatory a decade ago. Instead, the government is too busy arresting the scientists who can help —for the crime of standing there, no less— and handing over subsidies to companies that are making record profits and opening more gas wells.

Far too many Britons dismiss the idea that they’ll be direct victims of climate unsettling. Every model I have seen highlights dire possibilities.