Climate change is going to cause civilizational collapse, apparently. We’re told this by David Attenborough, which gives us our first good laugh of the assertion. This is part of the U.N.’s “peoples’ seat” idea, where a representative not of the establishment, or of the political class, gets to stand up and tell them what we all think. That Attenborough, a knight of the realm and a national institution, is not part of said establishment is indeed laughable. He’s also got some distinctly untasty ideas about matters environmental, having been involved with the Optimum Population Trust, the people who think that 6 billion should die, or at least not breed, as 1 billion is all we should have.

But it’s his assertions about climate change itself which are also more than a little odd. They are risible, rather than rigorous. For this civilizational collapse idea, there’s nothing of that in any of the scientific reports underpinning the idea. Not even the IPCC’s own work says that. This is long before we get to the recently noted point that the predictions about the future are fixated upon the worst possible outcomes.