Comedian David Mitchell Tackles Climate Change

In this video, which found its way here via the blog A Sibilant Intake of Breath, David Mitchell muses on why tackling climate change is always presented to us by people who either tell us off or patronisingly try to convince us that tackling it is “cool” or “fun”, when actually it’s just something we have to do, because of facts:

I’d really like someone to convince me that it’s not [real]. Life would be a lot easier if astrology was true and climate change wasn’t. But bugger it all, it turns out that it’s the other way around…”

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