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	Podcast:		The Mike Hosking Breakfast
	Episode:		Mike's Minute: What will yet another climate report achieve?
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:01:39
	Publish Date:		2022-04-05 21:48:58
	Description:		What's in a report? Well, depends who you ask. The IPCC, the climate change wonks, have put their latest report out. Headline one, yes there is still time to limit climate warming to 1.5 degrees. Headline two, goal of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees is no longer plausible. So, which is it? Doable or not? And how many people who wrote those headlines had skin in the game, a view that needed representing, or even knew what the report was really saying? Yet another headline unfortunately used that tired old line of it's "now or never." It's been "now or never" for decades. Anyway, it's either too late or it isn't. It's either now or never or it isn't But here is what I know to be true, the alarmism is an industry, the action is minimal if not hypocritical, and the future will be the future. Not enough of us are engaged anymore, if in fact we were engaged in the first place I liken it in a way to this country's attitude to Covid. Most of us are over it. We shouldn’t be, the outbreak is still real, the potential for new strains is real, but the booster uptake is shocking. So, here we are. Climate change went through the process, I think, of some genuine alarm and some real attempt at some sort of action. But as the years, if not decades, have passed. We have seen the meetings, the agreements, the promises amount to, if not nothing, certainly not enough for the latest report to say "well done, world. We kicked that climate measure for six, emergency over." The fact we have never paid more, or sold more, coal, gas, and oil probably doesn't help. It's a daily reminder of what we value most, and that’s turning the lights on, and not saving the Earth, if in fact our individual actions could ever have saved the Earth. I think more and more of us wonder if that was ever actually true. Pick your headline, read another report if you want. But if you're plugged into reality, they can write all the reports they want, they all end up in the same place. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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