Not Quite Bad Enough

At a high-level academic conference on global warming, half a year ago, a scientist pointed out that "carbon emissions since 2000 have risen much faster than anyone thought possible", despite efforts in the EU and here on the mainland to put off doing anything until 2020 or perhaps 2050; and that "the world needed to prepare for things to get very, very bad". The country's leading liberal newspaper got around to reporting it a few months later, under a subheading of a subheading - on the website, at least, not quite as significant as Chelsea v Cluj, and slightly less prominent than the advertisements for Shell and their avid search for new sources of greenhouse gas. The fate of the world is one thing, but people have their living to earn.