Climate Change is not the Problem

Here's a thought experiment. Let's assume, for a moment, that all our politicians are capable, honest and full of integrity and that our corporate leaders are the same. Let's further assume that they are unconditionally committed to addressing climate change. 

We still wouldn't solve the problem. Even if we had some cosmic magic wand and could detoxify the oceans, restore the forests and recover biodiversity loss, we still wouldn't solve the problem. 

We would just postpone it. 

Because, of course, the problem is us and the way we live. Until we understand we are part of nature, not masters of it and have to live in ways that recognise and support it, we will merely reinvent new versions of the current problem and arrive back where we are now a few generations later.

Climate change is not an engineering problem, nor can we solve it at scale. Instead, it is an individual problem and will be solved, if we wish, by the decisions we each take on how we live and who we follow. We will not addr…