A hole appeared in the ozone layer. The offending refrigerants were banned. The hole healed. We had affected the upper atmosphere.

Cllr Graves takes on the virtually unanimous global consensus of thousands of reputable scientists that human activity causes our rapidly heating climate. So what are his scientific credentials? The onus is on him to explain why so many scientists are wrong. If our activity is not the cause, it seems we have no remedy. Defeatist, alarming, depressing. And fortunately wrong.

We export some of our emissions e.g. importing Chinese solar panels (that Chinese slave labour is ours too). Calculating emissions produced for our benefit here and abroad, our emissions rate rises to over 2%. Transport to the World Cup, the eclipse, Gamescon adds a considerable amount to global emissions and Britons were part of that. The scale of the problem is immense and no rich country is doing anything like enough.

Interestingly, Graves seems to acknowledge some aspects. He wants clean energy and air, recognising pollution? He would have us use more efficiently energy, fuel, water, resources and reduce waste, recognising unsustainable consumption? Could concern for connecting people and nature also be recognition of materialistic over-consumption?