Finding uplifting news about climate change is a challenge

Finding uplifting news to write about climate change is rather difficult.

Efforts to mitigate the causes are many, but what is needed is an almost immediate and significant change in human behaviour.

Sadly, simply changing our light globes (apologies for that simplification, but it is indicative of what many think is all they need to do) will not be enough.

Being busy with their lives, most people can’t find the time to contemplate that for them is “another life away” and headings such as: “Official prophecy of doom: global warming will cause widespread conflict, displacemillions of people and devastate the global economy” simply cause them to mentally shut down.

Although it may be accurate, stories such as this simply alienate people and in a strange way force them to queue with the climate deniers.

Even the most ardent advocates of climate change, and that is nearly all the world’s scientists who understand the damage we are doing to our atmosphere, are optimists.

And so while they willingly accept such stories as that published today in The Independent, they still have a certain confidence that humanity can negotiate its way out of this difficulty.