I gave a presentation the other day to a group of university graduates during which the issue of electricity and coal came up. So I casually asked how coal is converted into electricity. And you know what? No one knew.

I didn’t go into their politics but given age and demographic, these might have been the heart of the Greens constituency.

You cannot believe just how lacking in basic information many among the young today must be. If they don’t know how coal is used to make electricity, then they are less likely to worry about getting rid of carbon forms of fuel. But it is worse than anything I might have believed. We are dealing with a level of ignorance so profound that it may literally be the end of us.