I was about to have a go about political attitudes, but I see its gone full frontal on the climate change conspiracy.
I won't be put off, however.
This is back to an Ellipsis post:
//People with not much life left, who hate the world and all its people, plants and animals, including their own descendants if any, might have a vested interest in destroying it//
ITo which I replied:
suppose there are some people like that, Ellipsis.
Myself, I don't have much life (nor, perhaps, much appetite for it) left. And no descendants saving surrogates from my late wife. Nonetheless I'm somewhat fond of the world, its plants, its animals and even some of its people.
MOre Ellipsis: "I have a vested interest in preserving a planet that's at least as good for the next generation as it is for this one".
Almost a conservative statement (as in Edmund Burke, although he was talking not about the physical environment, but about culture, which, similarly, is finely balanced and hostage to shock). But the conservative principle is not based on vested interest[i, it's based on moral duty. The essence of conservatism is gratitude for the good things we've inherited, conserving [i]those] and improving the bad bits. All this as opposed to radical "solutions" which see the bad, want to tear it up and start again tabula rasa. An impatient and destructive idealism which most of us suffer from in our youth, and some of us outlive.
Right, I've gpt that off my chest.