… this essay continues from Part Two: “Nobody Understands Climate: Can We Trust the Science?
The sky is darkening over our political discourse on climate change. News bulletins inform us of somewhere being hit by a “once-in-a-century” storm, flood or wildfire with unsettling frequency. We hear and read about it and feel enormous sympathy for those impacted, yet it feels remote. We understand that there is a problem we need to tackle, yet it feels distant; and so we put it on the back burner. Our weather vane politicians react to focus group sentiment and electoral trends. They no longer seem capable of taking a lead. Their inertia feeds ours, and vice versa.
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