CRISIS IS OPPORTUNITY : Suggestions that the UK’s government isn’t serious about Climate Change can easily be retorted by pointing out the lengths Liz Truss is going to to foster trade relations with the far side of the world.
Once Patagonia and New Columbia are dependent upon British markets for their livelihoods they will be under great political pressure to ensure the trade remains viable. This underscores the UK Gov’s seriousness on the subject more than any major BBC platform like Newsnight asking Stanley Johnson on to opine on the subject. The British establishment is engaging in this subject in earnest.
But it’s not just distant lands that will benefit from our attempts to develop greener fossil fuels to transport goods, local British industries will see the benefits of Climate Change also.
“The fishermen will, that’s for certain,” a 10 Downing Street source told LCD Views. “Once the low lying areas of the UK flood then there will be even more sovereign British water for our domestic industry to prosper in. And no Scandinavian will be able to cast a line beside the Palace of Westminster or the new estuaries of West Sussex! Ha! Take that EU!”
The opening up of inland areas of England for fishermen will be particularly beneficial after the industry suffered a “mysterious and unexplained” setback this year.
“It may take a few decades for Sutton in South London to become a viable shellfish breeding region, so the fishermen will just have to be patient,” the source advises. “They can take advantage of the job prospects opening up in the haulage industry in the interim.”
Sunlit uplands of Brexit? What sunlit uplands? The sunken lowlands are where the real prizes lie. As the people who brought you Brexit can be guaranteed to do their upmost to bring you a changing climate…