Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals

Would you advise someone to flap towels in a burning house? To bring a flyswatter to a gunfight? Yet the counsel we hear on climate change could scarcely be more out of sync with the nature of the crisis.

Wimbledon, London, UK. 27th April, 2015.
 A waste management company named
Dirty Harry uses a poster of Lord
Kitchener to urge the public to recycle.

The email in my inbox last week offered thirty suggestions to green my office space: use reusable pens, redecorate with light colours, stop using the elevator. 

Back at home, done huffing stairs, I could get on with other options: change my lightbulbs, buy local veggies, purchase eco-appliances, put a solar panel on my roof.

And a study released on Thursday claimed it had figured out the single best way to fight climate change: I could swear off ever having a child.

Read the story from The Guardian by Martin Lukacs - “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals.”