For 'Plan B' we need to turn to our religious leaders

In the lead-up to the Paris climate change summit, US President Barack Obama recently said “We only get one planet. There’s no Plan B”. Of course he’s right – there’s no other planet we can retreat to. Obama’s statement emphasized the urgent need for international agreement in Paris to minimise human-caused climate change and its impacts.

Plan A is gaining international agreement, and no one wants to contemplate the next steps if it fails. Yet we’ve been here before – similar sentiments preceded the Copenhagen summit in 2009, but negotiations failed. Since then, climate change has slipped in public importance across the world.

Despite some promising initial announcements from politicians and entrepreneurs, even optimistic predictions of the Paris agreement indicated it will fall short of what is required.

We actually need Plan B.

Read what a lecturer in Psychology, Queensland University of Technology, Paul Bain, had to say on The Conversation  - “Look to our religious leaders for a climate change Plan B.”