“Unpopular ideas can be silenced and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban not because the government intervened but because a general tacit agreement that it would not do to mention that particular fact.
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question”

-George Orwell in his suppressed preface to Animal Farm



"It would not do" to mention The possibility of 4 billion dead by 2050. It might panic the population into action against the fossil fuel interests. The dictionary needs an antonym for hysteria, a word meaning insane composure and calm. The tranquillity with which our media report climate warnings will amaze future historians, if there are future historians