Optimism of hitherto
unseen dimensions will be needed if we are to escape from the present
human-created dilemma that is climate change.
It was the late author Studs Terkel who said that hope dies
last and almost regardless of the prism through which we view the present
difficulty, hope may well be our final and only option
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| Author, the late Studs Terkel. |
The world’s “responsible men” (the men and women with their
hands on the levers of the industrial/military/economic machine) continue to
bet the planet as they pursue goals that enrich a few and leave most wallowing
in serious inequality.
Our blatant use of polluting energy sources, fossil fuels,
has accelerated the world’s confrontation with climate change and it is clear
to many that solutions using renewable energy are simply waiting for us to put
them to work.
However, that is not happening although anyone alert to
developments in the world must be aware of our need for clean energy.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has clearly
told us that life on earth as we know it is seriously at risk unless we embrace
different ways of energizing human activities and along with that, change our
behaviours.
A story published in the Guardian headed: “IPCC report: world must urgently switch to clean sources of energy” again stresses the
importance of stepping away from fossil fuels.
