It’s the end of the world as we know it - but no one. it seems, has told Al Gore. “Politics has futurism coiled within its rhetoric – the politician generally promises a better, brighter future, so long as you vote for him or her. It is rare that a politician will say, ‘Don’t bother to vote, it’s all doomed, just go home and wait for the end.’ Yet a politician can sometimes afford to be a qualified eschatologist, and such optimistic pessimism can even take them a long way – as...
