The ‘greatest crisis ever’ – Part One
The ‘greatest crisis ever’ – Part One By John Hollaway - July 27, 2021 The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H L Mencken (1880-1956) THERE is bad news: the British government says it has no plans to delay the huge UN annual climate change conference due to be held in Glasgow this November. And there is good news: Greta Thunberg (‘You stole my childhood . . . how dare you!’) has told the BBC it should be postponed and she does not plan to attend anyway. Wise move: at 18 she is probably past her sell-by date. Still, man is the worrying animal, and when he runs out of government-provided hobgoblins to worry about, the BBC can be counted upon to come up with new ones, such as children losing sleep over climate change and the environment . This should tide us over until November, when the great...