One person’s recycling won’t stop climate change in itself. We must act collectively

Climate change is happening now and it’s happening faster and much worse than predicted. It’s threatening to the world we know and everything in it. It’s already killing people. This is beyond doubt or argument.

 ‘School children going on strike demanding climate
 action provide a shining example of disruptive, urgent,
agenda setting activism’ 

We have just years to change course. If we manage it, we could save the world, at least the one we recognise. Realistically, the prognosis at the moment is that we won’t manage to steer the ship around in time.

So why have we, as people with everything to lose, not acted sooner?

Read the story from The Guardian by Emily Mulligan - “One person’s recycling won’t stop climate change in itself. We must act collectively.”

“Sometimes if you wait for advice that is beyond doubt you can end up with very disastrous consequences,” so said former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard.

That observation was among the justifications the former PM listed that took Australia in the Iraq war in 2003.

Interestingly the world and Australia, in particular, is in precisely that position today – we know climate change is real, we know it is happening, the disastrous consequences are understood and known, but still, we prevaricate and procrastinate as the responsible men await “advice that is beyond doubt.”

Read Richard Ackland’s story in The Saturday Paper - “Gadfly: Where the truth lies.”