Arthur Grimes
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So these things can be tracked, they can be measured, and we can see what determines them.
And it comes down to these three things I mentioned before.
If you're reasonably prosperous, you have a happy family, and you're pretty healthy, you're probably going to be pretty satisfied with your life.
What we've seen with the Strait of Hormuz is that we've finally done something about it by restricting the oil supply.
That's led to increased prices and people don't like it.
But that's been the best climate change policy we've had in a very long time.
And, you know, it's exactly what we need, right?
We need to push up the price of fossil fuels hugely to stop people using them.
War as an economic driver.
Yeah, Trump has been a climate warrior as far as I can see on this, just unbeknownst to him.
But that's what we need and people don't want it.
So they say, yes, we should do something about it, but as soon as the price effect comes through that we need to increase the price of fossil fuels, there's a huge backlash.