'The Conversation' heading tells the tale of climate change

A heading on a story in this weekend’s The Conversation reflects how and why the world fell into the climate change trap.

Author, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Griffith University, Todd Winther, was actually discussing the likely fall of Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, next week, but could have just as easily been talking about how the world stumbled into climate change.

His story headed: “Leadership crises turn short-term thinking into long-term failure” seems to go straight to the root cause of climate change.

Humanity has almost without fail looked for short-term gains, all the while ignoring, and not always obvious, the long-term consequences.

Well, all debts must eventually be paid somehow and our frivolous and careless attitude to what our impact on the earth has been, has produced a massive cost and the debt is how due.