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Toss a coin and which version of Britain do you see: the one that looks ahead to the future, or the one obsessed with the long tail of its history? On the one hand, the UK s commitment to Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, its hosting of the G7 Summit in June and of the UN s COP26 Climate Change Conference in November, tell the planet that it is serious about tackling global warming.
But on the other, Prime Minister Boris Johnson s penchant for playing to the sceptics gallery with jokes about bunny huggers needlessly creates the opposite impression. It suggests that while Britain makes occasional pronouncements about the climate crisis or new technologies, its leader sees these things as just another excuse for a jape. That risks undermining some good, serious work - and it patronizes the people who are doing it.