People will not put up with being pushed around forever.
The celebs, the extravagance, the private jets… the hypocrisy of COP26 makes it easy to lampoon, with world leaders and activists emitting more carbon dioxide in a few days than some would muster in a lifetime, all in order to intone piously about the horrors of climate change.
But I for one wouldn’t have it any other way. For one thing, the gilded nature of these eco gatherings helpfully reminds us of the environmentalists’ guilty secret: that for all the crocodile tears in Glasgow about the lot of the world’s poor, environmentalist politics remains a thoroughly elite preoccupation, which evaporates upon contact with ordinary people.
