As Humankind Incinerates Its Only Home

From this piece on climate change: “If we act together, the renewable energy transformation can be the peace project of the 21st century,” said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.

I would simply say that we are a very, very long way from “acting together.”

I spoke with an old friend the other day who expressed her concern about environmentalism in terms of her own recycling habits.  “I put a lot of effort into this,” she said, “determining exactly what materials are acceptable, and making sure they’re clean–and now, I hear, dry.  How clean? How dry?  Am I harming the environment more by recycling than I would be simply landfilling this stuff?  Making it even more absurd is the fact that most people couldn’t care less about any of this.”

I hear you.  Yet giving up is no solution.