These days hardly a week goes by without me having both moments of confidence in our future as regards climate change and complete despair.
The reasons for this are that, on one side, we have the 2015 Climate Accord, there seems to be considerable momentum in society for climate action, the UK parliament has declared a climate emergency, the UK Government has improved it's emissions target, and we have all the tools we need to head-off climate change (with more in the pipeline).
On the other hand, we have a climate denier as President of the US, Brazil has just voted in a president who has opened up the Amazon to increased deforestation, and I remain sceptical that politicians as a whole have the backbone to implement the policies necessary to meet the climate challenge.
However, I am generally an optimist and I refuse to give up hope. Big Oil wants us all to give up so that it can carry on making profits at the expense of future generations.
Over the coming weeks, I plan on looking at the sort of changes we will have to make to stop the climate emergency.
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