Miliband begs people to care about the alleged threat of climate change
Looking at the Google Trends information for the UK below, Miliband should realize that he's on a doomed mission.
[Miliband:]We know we need to sustain public support not just for a year or two but on a sustained basis. Radicalism through the decades is something seldom attempted and rarely achieved; but we must achieve it.
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We need people not just to come with us, but to push us for more. We need popular pressure - pressure on me, on local councillors, on our public services and businesses.
How do we build a popular movement on these issues?
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And around the world, we need a global movement for a deal in Copenhagen.
I was aware of next year's negotiations before I got this job but I didn't feel it was really engraved as a red-letter month, in the same way as, say, the G8 meeting in Gleneagles. I would say the popular campaign for a deal has not yet found its full voice.
Let me end therefore by saying something unusual for a politician: part of my job is to be criticised for not doing enough.
That is as it should be: utopians, agitators, those who think we haven't gone far enough, are a crucial part of securing change.
Looking at the Google Trends information for the UK below, Miliband should realize that he's on a doomed mission.
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1 comment:
Interesting idea.
If the thesis is that the politician should be the one who slower than public opinion, then the failure to see large scale demonstrations is proof that he is moving too fast. Perhaps he should refuse to sign Kyoto II until the demonstrations become sufficiently large.
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