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Very good meeting this morning with Robert Kyriakides from Genersys. He offered an interesting take on the war footing/climate change analogy which has been doing the rounds for a while. Kyriakides reckons the current political climate is similar to the 1930s, where only a tiny minority of MPs were truly convinced of an imminent threat to our security and safety coming around the corner.
It chimed with a new play I say at the National Theatre last week called Never So Good, by Howard Brenton. It's an entertaining run through the life of former prime minister Harold Macmillan and focuses a lot of attention on his relationship with Winston Churchill pre and post-War - he was part of the anti-appeasement movement in the 1930s. I have to admit historical ignorance of Macmillan's part in this and just what a rag-bag bunch the Churchill-led group were.
The analogy is so apposite because we only realised the true danger of Nazi-Germany when it started to flex its muscles and that was almost too late. The question is whether it will be too late before we truly realise the dangers of climate change to act decisively in tackling the problem.
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