Are we ready for P(doom)?

It’s difficult to remember a time before climate change – a time when our daily discourse, our newspaper front pages, endless movies and TV documentaries, and Al Gore, Greta Thunberg and Sir David Attenborough (Peace Be Upon Him), were not lecturing us, sternly and constantly, about the threat to our planet from the ‘climate emergency’, the melting of the ice caps, the levelling of the Amazon jungle, the failure of the Gulf Stream, the desertification of Spain, and the complete and total cessation of snowfall in Great Britain, apart from the regular occasions when it snows. 

In fact, if you are under 30 you may not even be aware that there was a time when we didn’t vex about Anthropogenic Global Warming. For young people, this ongoing threat has been the melancholy background music of their entire lives, to the extent that some experts have wondered if it partly explains the dramatic collapse in global fertility.