Every time I see cranky greens marching in the streets, with their sad eyes and ‘End is Nigh’ placards, I marvel at the chutzpah of this movement. Here they are bewailing the approaching apocalypse, but if anyone is helping to bring about the apocalypse, it’s them. ‘Millions will perish!’, they howl. Yes, they will, if you misanthropes ever get your way. If your fever dream of slashed emissions, no more fossil fuels, an end to economic growth and everyone living in a yurt with nothing to eat but organic kale were ever to come to fruition. We only want to save mankind, they say, when in truth they’d doom us.
