Arguing with assholes uses up too much energy and if the current climate crisis teaches us anything, it’s that we need to conserve energy

I don’t go to many protests. But I went to the ‘Climate one’ last Friday week. I don’t mean to put myself at the centre of the story or anything — who am I kidding, of course I do — but the fact that the Likes of Me went along is noteworthy.

There are a lot of the Likes of Me. The non-protesty, a bit mealy-mouthed, reasonably good-at-heart but flawed and selfish, not strong ideologically, conflict-averse, oh-was-that-today?-oh-sorry-I-forgot, people. And we are a constituency that need to do a bit more thinking about what it means to live on a finite planet. So for the people leading the climate strike, getting a chunk of us to turn up was not a bad start.