Diesel-smelling

Uhh isn’t progressing to electric cars… science progressing to help solve the issue? What a strange train of thoughts.

He's right about electric cars not solving anything but wrong about politics not solving it. Science has already provided the solutions like over a decade ago but no one is willing to implement it.

I don’t think electric cars solve anything. Science is going to be needed here, not politics. Science will solve it eventually. Always does.

To be fair, it's corporations doing the vast majority of the polluting.

Where I live, electric cars are essentially a net-zero because most of our electricity comes from coal and gas.

Does that absolve any individual from doing what they can? Absolutely not.

There are tons of people with that opinion that "the eggheads will just figure it out like they always do". IMO it's incorrect, but people on all ends of the political spectrum have that take.

IMO he's correct that individual action doesn't matter, but he's wrong that political action doesn't matter. It reminds me of the gun hobbyists in the US who are against gun control because they don't want their enjoyment of their hobby to be constrained by laws intended to get less people killed. There are solutions here where you can have your cake and eat it, but you just don't want to decouple the fantasy of your hobby from the reality of it.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying guns or cars as a hobby, but you should also acknowledge that their widespread presence is a net negative for society and regulating them would be a good thing for the world in the long run. It doesn't mean you can't have your toys.

Certainly nobody who drives their car to the office every day on a congested freeway is thinking about how fun it is to drive a V8. Less car dependency and more public transit would mean less cars on the road which would make driving more fun for petrol heads like Clarkson anyway. He should want more public transit, cyclist infrastructure, etc. It would benefit him indirectly even as a petrol head.

What I find funniest though is when he says in that quote in the same breath "electric cars don't solve anything" and then "science will solve the problem". My brother in Christ, science made the electric cars!

You are probably right. Or maybe he just wants to create a discussion

Is it possible a tweet doesn't contain the entirety of his thoughts on the subject?

Change is rarely immediate or miraculous. He's moved a little, hopefully he continues on that path.

I won't hold my breath, but I won't refuse to accept that change has occurred. Slight though it may be.

It’s probably just promo for the next season of clarksons farm where he’ll plant a bunch of milkweed in the field that had the poor mustard harvest last year.

Jeremy does at least try to be somewhat environmentally conscious with his farm. Last season he was making a big focus on responsible hunting, renewable farming (less chemicals), using non-arable spaces for small scale harvesting (forest berries and herbs as well as putting hogs in the forest instead of a field), and utilizing the most of the space we have(growing mushrooms in an abandoned bomb bunker instead of building something new)

Idk, to me it seems like he's changed his opinion on the cause but not yet realized the effects

Standard issue conservative. They only complain when it begins to affect them. If he didn’t have a farm, would he still have moved in that direction?

I'm not saying that he did, or not completely, but people are allowed to learn and change opinions. It is possible!

Someone missed the episode(s?) where he raced the public transit system and lost. Or raced other drivers in noticeably slower cars in highly congested traffic and lost, or raced a bicycle and lost.

A semi-common through-line of the show was that cars are, and should be, for fun. (Full disclosure this was often pushed most heavily by James May, but I feel like Jeremy could have said no at any point.) They often lambasted average and everyday use cars.

I loved my old sports car! It was 2 seats and too much power! I had to get rid of it because it was unreliable and unsafe for traveling with my first kid. Neither would have been an issue with good public transit infrastructure in place.

Cars are not the problem, but car dependency absolutely is.

(I don't totally feel this way and do think cars a major contributing factor in some problems, like pollution of microplastic particulates from aggressive driving, but that isn't as quippy.)

they'll shout "why didn't anyone warn us!" while cashing their residual checks from the show that lampooned climate change and encouraged millions to buy gas guzzling shitwagons.

But Clarkson wasnt just ignorant, he was actively spreading ignorance.

He was out there telling all the kids that 6 x 5 = 40.

Now it looks like he might have realized that 6 x 5 is actually 30. If he wanted to be an adult and try to do better, he would be posting about how he was wrong, posting apologies, and positively affirming that 6 x 5 = 30. I dont see him doing any of these things.

Fuck you.

I hate to break it to you but these boomer guys are in charge. Nothing will happen until they either die or change their mind. That is the reality. Everything that has been done so far for the environment have done nothing at all, every year we have a new record carbon emissions. It does not matter how many solar panels and EVs they shove down our throats. It is not sustainable.

Assholes. Dumb whores. Leeches. Yeah, you really know how to motivate people and get them on-board!

Keep up the good work!

Yup. Oh, someone changed his mind bc he got into a different business, but before that the information was all readily available, but he ignored it bc he was previously profiting? Wow stand up guy, only paying attention to issues impacting his bottom line.

I'm not sure you used drive intentionally but it was a good pun that made me breathe out through my nose real fast

I mean, that's his appeal in Top Gear, isn't it? Chief arsehole of the three nincompoops.

Some people can play assholes for a show but are decent IRL. Clarkson appears to be an asshole who reined it in a little for the show.

Was it wrong that he punched his producer for not getting him a hot meal and called him a "lazy Irish cunt"? Possibly, but his series about a farm is doing very well.

Alan Partridge

Part of that is just a lot of funny tv people are mean spirited in their jokes, but may be nicer when not on TV

This is amusing, as while watching Clarkson's Farm, I find myself constantly yelling at the TV that he's being dumb. But seems like every time he is interacting(in person) with someone he doesn't know intimately he is extremely kind and deferential. With the exception being people that are antagonizing him in some way, even if they're not being malicious about it.

Do I smell a reference to Stewart Lee, if so thanks for the reminder, that's a great bit.

They'll just have to try harder!

That was amazing. And hostile lol.

What a work of art. Reminds me of Bill Burrs rant on Steve Jobs.

Whenever I see Clarkson mentioned this pops into my head.

Yeah, monoculture is probably the culprit, not climate change.

We actually do all of that already. We even had a local person from the DNR come in and help us with choosing native plants and getting rid of invasive ones. Very few fireflies. There used to be so many when I was a kid, you could just walk around catching them in your hands in the evening.

Fuck Cars

Why would you doubt me. I’m pretty chill and don’t tend to hate or hold grudges, as those only affect me so what’s the point.

Although, JC I can’t get past for some reason. He’s a cunt.

General Butt Naked

I thought it was some meme but it's a person that exists.

Not Hitler, not Stalin, not Mao

Be extremely angry at three guys who were dead 40 years before you were even born

Give a climate denialist with an enormous following of wealthy car-loving elites a pass

Find a little room in your hate for someone with a bit of relevance.

Most of those fellas are dead. No point wasting energy on them.

Google "whataboutism"

I would just be slow to just believe all the things they say about climate change if they blame everything bad on climate change, but never give any sort of positive.

Straight out of the climate deniers playbook lol

If it rains too much - climate change; if it rains too little - climate change. I get the idea the arguments but not everything bad with weather is climate change, and if there is bad there will also be good at some level. And also, russia didnt invade for that reason.