I’ve been asking myself a question – and even posing it makes me queasy.
Is it too late – are we beyond saving?
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| Tim Winton - "There’s fight in us yet, even if it’s a bit shapeless". |
As a culture and a polity, when it comes to climate change, have we arrived at a point where we are now expected – even trained – to abandon hope and submit to the inevitable?
OK, I guess that’s two questions. In good faith, I can still say that the answer to the first is no. But I’d be a liar and a fool to give the same response to the second.
No, it isn’t too late. But we’ve squandered decades of opportunities to mitigate and forestall impacts and we’re making a pig’s breakfast of responding to what is now a crisis. Even so, humans are not yet beyond saving themselves from the worst ravages of global warming. There’s fight in us yet, even if it’s a bit shapeless.
Read the story from The Guardian by Tim Winton - “Our leaders are ignoring global warming to the point of criminal negligence. It's unforgivable.”
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