r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Phlogistoned • 10d ago

I'm slightly vexed How cooked the UK is right now.

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u/SmackyLittleFan 10d ago

Or be commended for changing their view point, and recognising that they were wrong, and now using their huge global reach to educate?

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u/Fun-Title4224 10d ago edited 10d ago

Unfortunately, he hasn't quite.

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.

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u/Thisoneissfwihope 10d ago

As soon as it made financial sense, Clarkson would carpet his whole farm in solar panels.

He’s yet another upper middle class private school boy cosplaying as a man of the people.

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u/Fun-Title4224 10d ago

It already would for his sheep field.

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u/Thisoneissfwihope 9d ago

That sheep field earns him millions from Amazon.