1/2 Critical but constructive The other night, one of the UK Green Party leaders was on the BBC's current affairs programme Newsnight. They squeezed in a quick interview with him on COP at the end, almost as an afterthought. He spoke quickly, lots facts. He had learnt his lines well. He did not want to be "mealy-mouthed", the Labour Party were not walking the walk, but at least they were talking the talk. We could not say 1.5C was dead, but each tenth of degree was important. You could say the ambiance was "critical but constructive". Afterwards, I read the final chapter of Harald Jahner's book, "Vertigo, the Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany", the section called "Democracy abolished itself". The Catholic Centre Party voted with the Nazis to pass the "Enabling Act" to end democracy in order to "maintain a good relationship between church and state". Their leader "disguised his declaration of submission as a gesture of reconciliation". Critical but constructive. Ten years later "National Socialism would cost the lives of 60 million people, including 6 million murdered European Jews, and 12 million murdered Soviet Citizens." Ten years from now ...
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