In his Cop27 speech last week, the UK’s will-he-go, won’t-he-go prime minister said that stopping the planet dangerously overheating was still within our grasp, leaving many wondering just what planet he was on.
According to Rishi Sunak, last year’s Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow was about keeping alive the possibility of preventing the global average temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution from climbing above 1.5C. “ Alive”, as in connected to a drip, in a coma and suffering cardiac arrest every few hours.
One year on, the picture is even bleaker.
