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| Aristotle - he has the key to understanding our future. |
It seems we will need
to go back to the ancient philosopher Aristotle to increase our chances of
combatting climate change.
Conveying something as abstract as climate change to most people
demands the inventive use of metaphors and it was Aristotle he said that the ‘greatest
thing was to be the master of metaphor’.
The connection to Aristotle and metaphors was discussed in a
Climate Progress story headed: “Earth’s rate of global warming is 400,000 Hiroshima bombs a day”.
That is wonderful metaphor, but the shock of Hiroshima reverberated
around the world nearly 70 years ago and most able to best influence our
behaviour had not been born and so it oddly means little.
The reality of a changing climate is so remote from the
minds of most, that they will only understand what it means when it is
effectively too late to respond.
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