How To Transform Our Fear of Climate Change Into Positive Action

By Mike Hembury — SOAPBOX

The year is 2020.

Let’s call it the make-or-break year. The last year where it might still be possible for us to pull hard on the emission brakes and make drastic cuts to hit the Paris Agreement target of 1.5°C of global warming.

Where a failure to do so will mean committing ourselves, and the planet at large, to some form of runaway global warming. Where extractive, ecocidal business as usual currently has us on a trajectory towards climate chaos.

The year is 2020.

From the snowy heights of wintry Davos, Switzerland, the frozen hearts of the World Government of Money remain unmoved by calls for action and appeals to save the Earth.

Global do-gooder Al Gore flies into Davos to make an impassioned appeal to the higher sentiments of the capitalist crème de la crème:

“ The burden to act on the shoulders of the generation of the people alive today is a challenge to our moral imagination…This is Thermopylae. This is Agincourt. This is the Battle of the Bulge. This is Dunkirk. This is 9/11…We have to rise to this occasion.”

Needless to say, in the face of planetary crisis, the so-called captains of global industry promise to do…precisely…