Has the world become more confusing than ever?

WE certainly live in the age of the non sequitur.

Recently, I was called a murdering psychopath because I farm sheep and cattle.

My accuser lives in Central London and blames livestock for global warming. She fails to see the irony in that.

Closer to home I am told that I should kill my livestock and replace them with pine trees to sequester carbon. The question of how I am to make a living was not addressed.

Perhaps I could get work cutting down wilding pines — these abominations apparently do not sequester carbon, but do offend tourists.

Perhaps I could dust off my logbook and become one of the 200,000 extra pilots the world needs for the anticipated growth in air travel. Carbon emissions are fine if they are put directly into the stratosphere, presumably.

Tourists will be flocking to New Zealand to drive through millions of hectares of pine trees on their way to view the bare hillsides of the South Island high country.

A year ago, our Prime Minister described climate change as her generation’s ‘‘antinuclear moment’’.

The price of petrol and diesel has since risen dramatically, which the law of supply and demand tells us should reduce consumption, reducing CO2 output.

In response, our Prime Minister has announced an inquiry into the high price of fuel.

Is it just me or has the world become more confusing than ever? Julian Price

North Otago