Climate Leadership Responsibilities

Climate is a Human Problem. Technology and economics are the easy parts. We either have the tools to revolve this or we do not. If we do not we are hosed anyway. If we do, the political decisions needed to move the global public and commerce to resolving action is what we should be undertaking right now.

The problem I have with this is I also believe the public are the beginning of a virtuous circle to climate success. But our leaders, prior to this, must first deliver us from prejudice. This means accepting responsibility rather than blaming others. Uniting people rather than dividing them. All things that are rarely undertaken by today's leaders, especially prior to important political events such as elections. The times when the public is most acutely aware of the state, its administration and how much to trust it.

For politicians this means commencing a courageous journey to the Undiscovered Country. An imaginary place where we have given up our prejudices and finally learned to get on with one another as global citizens.

Of course the alternative is much more costly and painful but may be of equal merit to the biosphere and perhaps civilisation in Darwinian terms. There will be fewer mouths to feed, fewer cars to fuel, fewer homes to heat and cool.