This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Good morning. It's three minutes after ten. I hope you're well.

I have a prediction to make here. And it is that the gratification you feel or the

gratitude you feel when I turn my attention to climate change and net zero in particular, as someone

who cares passionately about it, which I, we've got to be honest with each other, that is not everybody

by any stretch of the imagination. I think it might run out soon. I don't know how often I can

come on the radio and express bewilderment and confusion at the fact that this subject is not

taken much more seriously, while I routinely fail to take this subject as seriously as it should be taken.

I've just put my hands up at the start to the sort of cognitive dissonance I feel on mornings

like this. And what it does, of course, is leaders towards not talking about it.

Because I don't like the feeling of cognitive dissonance.

Now here is the single most important issue facing the species, right? Theoretically, there's an argument for saying we should be talking about it every day, or at least every week, or possibly every month, but we don't. I don't know why not. So what I do, because I'm clever that way, is I come on the radio and express bewilderment about why we don't talk about it more, because I like to go meta, you know, I like to rewrite the rules of radio phonemes. My tongue is in my cheek. I appreciate you can't see that at the moment. But how long can I get away with that? How long can I assuage my own cognitive dissonance on this subject by admitting to my own cognitive dissonance on this subject. It can't last forever, can it?

I need a cognitive dissonance capture technology somewhere in the North Sea

so I can store in enormous caverns all the cognitive dissonance I feel on this issue.

If you're wondering what I'm talking about,

that's what Grant Shaps wants to do with greenhouse gases.

He wants to store them in enormous caverns in the North Sea.

Scientists say that it is, you know, interesting technology,

but probably not something that you should be relying upon in the current circumstances.

The UK government plans to defy scientific doubts.

I mean, when did that sentence right there stop being terrifying?

Brexit, isn't it?

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