Governance stands between a decent life and climate driven catastrophe

Roger Cohen.

Governance at local, national and international levels focussing on the needs of people rather than their wants is all that stands between a decent life and climate change driven catastrophe.

And in reading Roger Cohen’s story in The New York Times - “Australia Does Anxiety” – it seems the neoliberalists of the world prefer chancing catastrophe rather than embracing the altruism that is the essence of a good life.

The resolution of climate change, well, it can’t be resolved in any time frame relevant to those alive today, but if worldwide we shift the emphasis from human wants to what people really need, we begin processes that will soften the extremes.

That change of emphasis hinges almost entirely on the governance of our society and in reading Cohen’s story we are well shy of having any governance to allow that shift in attitude – Robert McLean.