When it comes to climate policy, appearances are everything
Excuse the clichéd talking point about climate activists jetting off to save the planet, but sometimes there’s little choice.
In an act of almost poetic injustice this week, a raft of climate-inspired taxes on household goods, such as disposable paperware — on which many poorer families rely, absent a dishwasher — came into effect in Israel. At that very moment, a planeload of the bureaucrats responsible were spewing tons of CO2 into the atmosphere on their way to the Glasgow climate conference.
Far be it from me to suggest that the 120-strong delegation was a tad oversized for a tiddling country like Israel, or to imply that the trip for some was a ministerial junket. For all I know, the global future mandated every single flunkey.
It’s just that in the maris ayin department, this simply didn’t look good. And when it comes to climate policy, appearances are everything.
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