Jeremy Clarkson: Just been for a walk round the farm and I’m a bit alarmed by how few butterflies there are.

Something is afoot.

Danny Wallace: Diesel-smelling Top Gear host who threatened climate protestors misses butterflies.

  • a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    To be fair. His farming ventures have moved his opinion on climate in a positive direction.

    But have they? His insistence at this point is that he doesn’t have to do anything, or change anything, science will “solve the issue”. Nothing better than someone who thinks any mess they make can be cleaned up by someone else so why bother trying to make any changes that makes your life slightly less convenient?

    He added: ‘I won’t drive a Tesla. I’ve got probably 10 cars, all with V8 engines. I don’t think electric cars solve anything. Science is going to be needed here, not politics. Science will solve it eventually. Always does.’

    https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/29/problem-jeremy-clarksons-global-warming-joke-20736068/

    To be fair. His farming ventures have moved his opinion on climate in a positive direction.

    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Uhh isn’t progressing to electric cars… science progressing to help solve the issue? What a strange train of thoughts.

      • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I know someone who has a similar outlook (climate change is real but science will solve it, so we don’t need to change anything). Basically anything science produces toward that end they will move the goalpost and say it’s not worth pursuing because science will fix it.

        It is essentially their way of making climate change denialism seem reasonable and open-minded. I think if somebody came up with a miracle device to magically reverse everything, they’d complain it’s too costly at any price.