Jeremy Clarkson has blasted people focusing on environmentalism (Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Jeremy Clarkson has insisted a ‘clean, green’ planet would be void of ‘so much of what makes us happy’.
The Clarkson’s Farm presenter, 63, has claimed a world that focuses on environmentalism would be too depressing because he thinks so many natural pleasures will need to be ‘sacrificed’ in order to achieve it.
In his column for The Times, he argued: ‘To achieve a clean and green world, they will have to sacrifice so much of what makes us happy.
‘Instead of food, for example, we may have to live on pills. Made by AI machines in solar-powered factories, these will give us all the vitamins and energy we need — but where’s the joy in that?
‘Compared, say, with carving a lovely piece of beef and opening the oven door to find your Yorkshire puddings are perfect for once. Who wants to live in a world without gravy?’
He also took aim at people with vegan diets, and while he insisted ‘it’s a noble quest’, he doesn’t see the appeal.
The Clarkson’s Farm star thinks a green world would be a miserable one (Picture: Amazon)
Clarkson took aim at vegans and ‘woke’ culture (Picture: Todd Williamson/January Images/REX/Shutterstock)
‘I watch people now, chewing on grass, like cows, and pausing occasionally to sip from their lumpy green juice, and they always look so desperately pale and unhappy compared with the slightly tipsy person queueing for some late-night fish and chips,’ he added.
‘It’s a noble quest. But what they will lose if they are ever successful in their endeavours is the one thing that makes life worth living. Joy.’
The former Top Gear and Grand Tour presenter – who has children Emily, 29, Katya, Finlo, 26 and 22-year-old Katya with ex-wife Frances Cain – also bashed ‘woke’ culture and lamented at the loss of humour that is quickly deemed offensive.
‘I’ve always told my children that the most important thing they can do in life is make people laugh,’ he explained. ‘It used to be fairly easy: you just said something funny.’
He argued: ‘But in the new world, where giving offence is not allowed, it’s not easy at all. Flippant morning exchanges with the security guy at your office. Risqué exchanges on WhatsApp. Bons mots with the girl at the coffee shop.
‘The little things that once brought a momentary flutter of levity into your life. Not possible, I’m afraid, as a man can’t walk into a pub any more. Because he may not be a man.’
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