let’s not forget the great justifier: “in hindsight and with the knowledge we have now, yes, we should have acted earlier”.

Always works. Also used by Shell when asked why they didn’t act earlier on climate change …. with a straight face after they were shown their own (!) 1985 video predicting the exact climate crisis we are now in, if we didn’t change our behaviour.

Don’t rock the boat. Plausible deniability.

Others will suffer, not us…. no worries.