The following excerpt pretty much sums up short-term governmental thinking, but also the lack of pressure we are putting on them, despite the growing realisation amongst the wider public of just how serious and imminent the climate crisis is.
'But governments pouring trillions of dollars into stimulus plans to rescue their ailing economies are mainly addressing job losses and the economic damage inflicted from lockdowns.
Very little of that cash is heading towards reducing carbon emissions, although emissions have fallen in the past year because people aren't travelling as much.'
Covid x 1000 will just look like a walk in the park compared to the ramifications of business as usual, probably in the not too distant future. And that 'business as usual' doesn't just apply to governments and corporations, it applies to each and every consuming human on the planet.
We've got to truly change, not just pretend we care and then go on buying shït from China because we 'quite fancy having one of those', or flying off to the Canaries twice a year because we 'really do deserve another break'.
Continuing to think in terms of endless economic growth and fudging things a bit to look better is going to be suicidal for this species, and murderous towards most others. |  |
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