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Fiddling while Rome burns
Yorkshire Evening Post
|July 21, 2025
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Inspired by his example the Conservative and Reform UK parties have jettisoned Net Zero and gone for Net Nero.
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Except the whole world is burning, not just Rome.
Science is emphatic, our climate's fragile life support system is at stake.
Enough extreme weather, and you mangle global agriculture and food and water supplies.
Already parts of the world will become uninhabitable in a few decades.
If you don't understand or believe the science, you should still act as if it's true - just in case.
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