George Osborne may have been unceremoniously booted out of the UK Treasury by incoming PM Theresa May, but one of his legacies will live with us for decades as May rubber-stamped his deal with the Chinese Government to finance new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point. For a man who denigrated renewables on value for money grounds, Osborne’s parsimony deserted him on Hinkley, with even nuclear’s biggest proponents wincing at the cost of the new facility.

Unrelated, but related, The Independent’s Sean O’Grady launched an anti-cyclist tirade at the news that West Midlands Police are fining drivers who skim rider’s elbows. He completely omits to mention that the crackdown was in response to the Police’s own evidence that only 2% of serious collisions involving cyclists were the cyclist’s fault.

Both can only be explained by ingrained mindsets. Osborne clearly buys the old “renewables too expensive, nuclear too cheap to meter” myth and O’Grady plays the old “cyclists aren’t real road users, so should simply keep out of the way” saw. Neither men are stupid, but they manage to argue stupid things because humans tend to see the world through a rather fixed worldview.

I cleave to the belief that the biggest barrier to sustainability is just six inches wide, the space between our ears. For sustainability to become the norm, we’ve got to change these, and many other, worldviews. Rants, like mine above, won’t work to change those minds – we’ve got to find ways of finding the common ground and moving on from there. What I call Green Jujitsu.