Economics defeats science in climate change conversation

Immediately the climate change conversation became a matter of economics it was lost.

The economically loaded dice.

The climate change doubters, denialists, and their contemporaries celebrated once they were able to shift the discussion from the realities of science to the quirkiness and whimsicality of economics.

The financialization of the world is complete and world leaders driven by a populous unable to see beyond or through this shroud of secrecy that favours just a few, a frighteningly small percentage of the world’s population, make decisions rooted in economics, rather than good sense.

What’s best for people is a concept that under the sleight of hand control by the demagogues of the world has collapsed to slide to near the bottom of the hierarchy of importance, while what’s best economically now sits unchallenged at the top.

Climate change can only be resolved if the public is again allowed, or given, its pre-eminent importance and the people of the world set free of the economic chains that presently restrict their behaviour.

Individualism, globalism, the desire to have more, and the urgency to accumulate riches whatever the cost, exemplified by a distorted capitalism, has bequeathed the world climate change and although we live in a world with many cultures, races, territories, passions, views and ideas that can divide us, we are, whatever people think or believe, one people with just one planet and the resolution of climate change, or at least learning to live what we have done, rests with us acting at one.

The dilemma that has produced climate change, the financialization of a scientific conversation, is being repeated on Britain contemplates it future in the European Union.

What’s best for the people of Britain is now being judged almost entirely in raw economic terms, rather than what is best for them; what will enable them to build the resilience to be a socially richer country; a country able to address and deal with the challenges evolving from our disrupted climate system.

Dealing with climate change is not economic, it is a social issue as is the matter of whether or not Britain leaves or stay in the European Union.