There are some people, so obsessed with politics they can’t even see the parrot fish; they just go on and on and on about the coral bleaching that they have never seen.

And these are mostly the people that our institutions give the microphones to. On both sides of politics.

They lecture to us about things they have no understanding of, and no experience of.

It has taken me an awfully long time to realise that as a civilisation, there is really very little interest from the political class in how things really are in the natural world. There is just a desire to turn it into one more thing that can be argued over.

But how they will pretend otherwise.