Or Nelson Mandela, who fought to end apartheid, spent 27 years in prison, and wrote: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Or Martin Luther King Jr, who wrote from a Birmingham jail: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. How he rallied his people to resist Nazi Germany when Hitler seemed unstoppable.
The job is massive yet clear: blueprint humanity’s rapid path into a better, clean-energy world by ending our addiction to fossil fuels.įor inspiration, Winston Churchill might come to mind. And it’s only going to get worse and probably irreversible – larger fires, extended droughts, more intense storms, and more environmental refugees, destabilized regimes and unlivable parts of our planet – if our carbon-based economy continues unabated. The latest UN report on climate change issued a “code red for humanity”. All political measures up to now have been insufficient. World leaders scheduled to meet soon at the United Nations Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow to discuss – and act upon – our global climate crisis face a huge task, as do those here in the US as they fine-tune the climate measures in the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan.
“Glasgow is our last chance” has become a climate crisis mantra.
