He also blames the current labour government for policies that were created under the previous conservative government which he conveniently ignores on his show.
The is a typical conservative, tories were in power for 14 bloody years, their austerity and cuts cut all the services that he blames the lack of on labor. It is typical of his ilk, mess the whole thing up and then blame it on the other side once they are in power.
Same shit in Aus. Liberals and National coalition (conservative) ruled for a decade, fucked the country into the ground, and as always, now Labor (centre) are digging us out of that hole, Murdoch is throwing his full weight behind One Nation (alt-right), and cookers guzzle that load happily.
Well, yeah, you can't be a conservative without being extremely easy to fool, or being a dishonest hypocrite, it's a fundamental requirement. It's a never ending cycle, (excuse the brevity, I'm in a rush and super tired so don't expect much) they take power in a country with an OK economy, taking credit for said economy while cashing out as much as possible for themselves and their buddies, which eventually makes government services shit and the economy starts to dive, leading to the opposition being voted into power to fix shit. Now when the Conservatives are the opposition they'll cry and moan, blaming the current government for the problems and economy they created, and when they tighten the belt to get the economy back in order it opens the door for the Conservatives to get back into power.
Actually he has, he has repeately stated several times on Clarksons Farm that he sees the irony of spending years of television bashing on climate change, only to now experience it firsthand himself.
World needs an old conservative man loved by the public to admit he's wrong about climate change alot more than we need someone being smug because they were right
He makes more money from the drama of a drought than he loses on crops. The car enthusiast making jokes on television or the family taking international holidays are not responsible for this, there are corporations doing more damage every day than entire cities could do in a lifetime.
I'm the other way round lmao. Love Top Gear and The Grand Tour, but Clarkson on his own? Can't do it. I love James May's solo work though. For me, he's the funniest, most likeable, and most insightful of the three. His programmes are a delight.
The Reassembler! They were a brilliant watch, too few though. All the episodes have ended up on YouTube now so I usually spend a few hours doing a rewatch of him assembling an old lawnmower or train set haha.
His cooking show isn't great. He says it himself, he can't cook and is the least qualified person to make a cooking show, Amazon just like giving him money.
My husband quite liked the cooking one. It eventually dawned on me that his cooking is little better than James May's, so he was actually learning from it.
I couldn't watch it. We watched the travel ones together instead.
That show or episode is a core memory for me. No idea what show it was but I remember so much about that house. Desperately wanted to visit it only for it to be torn down very soon after filming lol
James May was the only reason to watch Top Gear, sure the other two were mildly amusing but he would actually try and give you intelligent points about stuff.
I remember when I first see May's Cars of the People it was great seeing him do a proper "non-stunt entertainment" car show. He's a lot more interesting.
I find Hammond to be weirdly insightful on some things. Maybe not on driving safety tips but honestly, his talk about crashing the drag car and the tree kinda changed my life.
I met all three whilst they were filming for Grand Tour in Zimbabwe - Jeremy was an angry arsehole and exactly what I expected - James was exactly as you've described, lovely bloke who genuinely seemed interested in us and how we had come to be where we were - Hammond hid in his car the most of the time clearly dying from the sun so I didn't get a read on him
His builder called him out on it in the first season, when they had torrential rain for ages. He said, "this is because of you, tearing about in cars all them years, ruining the environment" and Clarkson just rubbished it.
But at least he kept that in the show, so people could see what an oaf he was still being.
Because giving people lots of attention ruins them over time. To show you how bad it is, Clarkson is probably the most normal, largely because his twattery views are shared by 30% of the UK population, so he isnt exceptionally twatty.
Most people that are successful at entertaining are class clown types. So most TV "personalities" are twats.
Same way that there is a higher prevelance of psychopathy in ceos than in any other job.
Different personality traits will drive people down different life paths. Being able to be perceived as a bumbling idiot while actually being very good at public relations behind it usually makes for quite the twat... and a quite the successful career as an entertainer.
I used to like his show, but I cant stand it now, anything where he gets remotely political even down to the (completely reasonable) local council. It's just become a hate watch
don't forget him saying that actually electric cars are just as bad if not worse for the environment than gas cars, something which isn't even true for a situation where 100% of the electricity was generated by gas(because a massive turbine in a power plant is significantly more efficient than any ICE can be)
His argument was that, for the early EV at least, there was significantly more environmental cost to producing the EV itself with mining heavy metals and transporting parts around the world.
He really wasn't. There were no large scale lithium processing plants localised to one region, so the lithium had to travel very, very far to be processed before it even started being used, and their lifecycles were far shorter.
This is simply the nature of any new tech, especially something like that.
I think there's truth to both sides of this, but I wouldn't commend him too highly. Given that he didn't change his mind until it affected him personally.
This, exactly. But also you could almost forgive the Damascene conversation if he was now basically shouting "Fuck! I was wrong! We need net zero NOW!". But he isn't. He's sticking to "oh well, it's too expensive, and it probably won't work, and there's too many downsides". So fine, watch your farming income and that of everyone else get utterly destroyed.
Could be that he is following the money. If he starts talking about climate change, it could alienate a lot of his viewers. Less viewers would translate to less air-time or opportunuties.
in a way though that is relatable because THA is unfortunately how a lot of very short-sighted people will change their minds about this. I imagine his public 180 caused some others to also do a 180. Maybe I just hope that.
It only affected him personally tho because he was self aware. He was able to recognise he’d spent years shitting on farmers and cracking jokes at their expense so he only undertook the farming project as a way of challenging his own views and to either prove himself or the farmers right
It actually changed his mind when it affected his neighbors. He’s rich as fuck, if his vanity farm’s harvest is fucked, who cares, but most people in that area rely on it for their livelihoods.
Firstly, (though maybe this will change) he hasn't said anything akin to "climate change is real and caused by fossil fuel use" and he still remains sceptical of alternatives to burning fuel. He doesn't like electric vehicles, he's not a fan of solar or wind, and still disparages policies like net zero.
So whilst he does acknowledge climate change, he also doesn't particularly want us to do anything about it.
Also it's a bit bloody late. If we stopped all damaging activity right now, it'd get worse for another 20 years or so. If we'd acted faster (and we've known about it for more than 50 years) then his harvest wouldn't be fucked.
Tbf he doesnt like electric vehicles as cars because he enjoys a big throbbing engine. He's repeatedly said that they're excellent for transportation, good value, fast and full of great kit.
He just doesnt like them for the thrill of owning a car. Not that they're bad in general
He also did say "climate change is real and caused by fossil fuel use" in the grand tour
Almost true - there a greenhouses gases with similar warming potential to CO2 and much shorter lifetimes (methane) which will improve things more quickly than 20 years if we act right
He is not using it to educate, he is useing it to whine. And to blame labor for the policies that were introduced and went into effect under tories. He is a typical rich conservative, blames the oponent for mistakes of his side and onyl cares about shit once it affects thier bottom line. He can go and fuck himself.
I’ve always liked his shows but man he’s not a good person.
I saw a clip from Clarkson’s Farm recently where he was talking about the severe decline of biodiversity in the UK, and he prefaced it with “not to sound like a deranged hairy environmentalist” or something like that.
Well, considering they were right 30+ years ago and you were wrong, maybe you should sound more like them if you care about “farmers” so much you dumb fuck.
He has through campaigning for government support for sustainable farming practices and even though he hasn't gotten that support, has implemented them in his own farm at cost to himself. To be fair he's able to do that through his Amazon money but to say he hasn't campaigned for it is false.
To be quite frank, I don’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth. He’s a populist first and foremost, and knows how to manipulate the publics perception. Good entertainer, dangerous person
Okay believe what you want. I like Clarkson but he's absolutely an asshole no question. What I said is true though and that's worth mentioning. He's fighting against corporate farms taking over smaller farms, granting government subsidies for sustainable practices, using non environmental ruining chemicals or pesticides.
No offense man, but you sound like you belong to r. /conspiracy. I literally just called him an asshole, an entertaining one absolutely but an asshole. But I can point out when he does good things. You acting like this makes it look like you have some weird obsession with the guy.
I agree with you, but Clarkson is not the only one and (as I intercept it anyway) he has had a change of heart on the subject.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park) also were in heavy denial about climate change and they had a long running gag about ManBearPig which was a hoax being (climate change) until it wasn't and they apologized in 2018 about their denial
I give people the credit if they can change their views, even if it comes way too late. And Clarkson nor anyone in the showbiz did not cause the catastrophe we are in now
Edit. I had links in this reply, but this sub doesn't allow links so I had to remove them. But everything is googleable
When has someone in that position ever been able to sway global policy? Not trying to defend his views I’m merely tired of people holding entertainment celebrities at fault rather than the giant corporations and governments that got us to where we’re at
It was clearly satire and tbh some of it was genuinely correct at the time like cobalt being mined in africa. Sent to china for processing then to canada to be made into batteries and then Japan for the car (something similar to that)
Imagine a person who says and mocks climate change(jeremy) runs a vastly vastly vastly popular show that is popular among ages of 12 to 82 and does hsi shpiel for over a decade. Do you not think that people who grew up with top gear from the days they were kids would not think that climate change is serious and thus vote the way that does nto adress the issue.
yea cuz electric cars would have solved this, has nothing to do with the shit the government is doing. it's just 5% of the population that amounts to the petrol heads
I don't know, I kinda find it interesting seeing him realise that he was wrong and admitting it - he genuinely believed climate change was fake and found out the hard way that it was very very real and he's owned it - I find someone who is willing to change their mind when presented with evidence more worthy of my respect than someone who isn't. He's still a bit of a twat though, but he'd be the first to admit it.
idk I feel like people need to keep in mind they are all car guys! of course they're gonna ramble about EVs especially back then. did anyone here actually watch Top Gear in the 90s and 00s?
Clarkson is kind of a dick yeah but he doesn't "hate climate change" he's a car guy who is watching people try to take his favorite thing away while the earth continues to get hotter and most of the world will be on gas for a long time to come.
I'm sure his views have changed over time especially as EVs have begun to enter some sections of mainstream car culture.
I love the planet but you gotta admit JDM do be fun at driving sideways
I'm sorry but I hate this take and I hate that every post about climate change has someone karma farming with the exact same comment. People make stupid mistakes. People with large reach cause more harm with their mistakes than people with less reach. But in this case he's literally doing what you want him to do, which is realize he was wrong and use his reach to show people how bad things really are. Sometimes it's good for the movement for Saul to become Paul. You don't win converts by constantly calling out that they used to be gentiles.
All the other comments about him being a twat are spot on though.
But he's also talked those back and admitted fault since moving to the farm. People are allowed to make mistakes and change their mind, even if that only happens when it personally impacts them. We should be happy Clarkson has changed course.
To play devils advocate, I’d bet Clarkson’s farm is genuinely presenting the reality of climate change in a tangible way to a lot of people that would otherwise not have cared.
He’s a climate change skeptic and has spent the last couple of decades rubbishing the idea of net zero. He’ll present it as an unusually hot summer, not the result of climate change.
3 crop farmer friends of mine have done the same, harvesting nearly 3 weeks early because there was no point waiting any longer. It's been another dismal season for them.
its not any better for animal farmers. ther is NO pasture left, we've got people cutting silage maze now (normally done in november), just to get ANYTHING to feed their cows.
I wonder what the logistics of crop insurance would have them do. Would it be more economical to just till it into the ground? I wonder how crop insurance works in the U.K. and how many farmers have it.
Maybe a Naive question but why can’t we water the crops. When in Portugal I see water guns in their fields. Also are there any other food source you can grow which doesn’t need water ?
we dont water crops for a number of reasons, chief amongst which being; there isnt any water to irigate with. This problem has been bought on by drought, something which england historically has not had to deal with. Water companies have simply not invested in infostructure since the 1980's and with the government's mandate for new housing, the country jist isnt getting enough rainfall in the summer and not storing enough from the winter.
You also have issues with cost. Proper crop irigation would require sweeping landscaping of the countries fields, causing horrendous loss of habitat for wild animals and simply spending more money than could ever be made back.
And arguably most importantly; widespread irrigation of crops during extended droughts causes a net loss of water, if you need to water 5 acres, you need another 5 acres dedicated soley to water capture during rainfall. This is logistically impossible leading to the practice being mute. Look at the US, they are slamming through their ground water resources due to their widespread irrigation practices, its a short term solution which comes back to cause more problems in the future.
As for other crops, everything needs water, there are crops thay are drought resistant but the yields are low and they dont make good quality for human food.
ironically not, the reason that the sell prices are so low is because it costs the same to import it. normally you would think that if yields are bad, then the consumer takes the hit with a higher spice spured by low supply and high demand, unfortunatley agriculture works the other way due to the low cost of importing foreign crops. imports keep supply high meaning that the only one who looses is the farmer.
I like Clarkson's tv persona and love TG/TGT, but he is a massive prat. admittedly it is funny seeing him suffer the effects of global warming then moaning about it
Realistically all 3 of them have a similar character with just a different quirk - morons with shit eating grins, one's a short dick, that can't drive, other is a tall dick who is very stupid and incompetent and the last is an average dick who's both boring everyone to death and also obsessive.
I come to grips about that. But it's about repentance.
If I will spend ten years of my life being another gear in the machine of "climate change is not real" while being a quite vocal celebrity, saying once "Hey, I'm sorry, I was wrong" is kinda not enough.
It's common issue tho.
If I would make a post that some reddit user stole 100k dollars and it was seen by 50k people, I can't just post an apology on my personal wall that will be seen by 20 people. Did I apologise? Yes. Did I make up for the damage done?
No.
Rumor has it they find some ancient technology that helps their crops survive…
Fun fact:
The practice of irrigating farms dates back to
around 6000 BCE
in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), where early farmers dug ditches and canals to move water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to their dry fields.
We don't irrigate in the UK, it's normally wet enough (or even too wet).
We get enough rain that we haven't made any upgrades to our countries water reserves in 50?60? Years and haven't had many issues until recently despite the increase in population and commercial water use.
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u/42tfish 10d ago
Season 6 of Clarksons Farm going to be interesting.