![]() And if we, as a society, copped to that fact, we’d all benefit immensely. ![]() We’re at the apex of the curve, on the verge of an unstoppable cascade that will irreversibly alter the systems governing the natural world. Now, some believe, is now too late: The tipping point has come. “Now” was once the 1970s, with the birth of the modern environmental movement “now” was the Kyoto Protocol and its carbon-reduction commitments of the 1990s “now” was Paris 2015. This message feels tired, its urgency attenuated from decades of repetition. World leaders took to the stage one after the other, each of them issuing dire warnings about imminent climate disaster and concluding with urgent calls to action: It’s not too late… but we must act now! The news reports from the UN climate change conference in Glasgow this month followed a predictable pattern. ![]()
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