‘It’s a milestone round his neck’, I heard a football manager saying on the Today programme.
‘It’s a milestone round his neck’, I heard a football manager saying on the Today programme. It was not what he meant to say, but it seems apposite to my own case, since I am writing this on my 50th birthday.
This bittersweet event gives me an egocentric framework in which to consider Sir Nicholas Stern’s new report on climate change. I have no idea whether Sir Nicholas is right in his predictions about the level of global warming, or of the ill effects of that warming, or in his prescriptions for how to prevent it. But the passage of 50 years does make me question the confidence with which people predict such changes. The best example is population growth. When I was born, there were roughly 2.75
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