
The Fourth Pillar
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its latest report this week, and it leaves no room for doubt. In a nutshell, we’re very nearly doomed and it’s all our own fault. With the world still reeling from COVID-19, its Janus-faced leaders bumble towards COP26 while defending a blatant Catch-22: apparently, the only way to stop burning coal, oil and gas is to keep on burning coal, oil and gas! There’s new coal under Cumbria and new oil off Shetland but exploi