David Spratt and Ian Dunlop write with authority on the devastating global heating trajectory. The science regarding the future before us if we don’t change course is clear. With due respect to the clever and dedicated scientists, many believe that global heating has now become a communications problem. Solutions are possible, but overwhelmingly humanity, particularly leaders, chooses to place our collective heads in the sand. Doomsday predictions do not entice us to action.
I therefore encourage Pearls and Irritations to follow up the excellent “towards and unliveable planet” series with articles conveying the solutions. Action is the antidote to fear and it is climate action at individual, local, national and global scales that we need.
As the UN’s “Communicating on Climate Change” advice suggests, mobilising folk to implement the opportunities before us is imperative.