Weathering the storm.

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolour, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all"

Stanley Horowitz

Here we are in an Autumn, meteorologically and economically, the like of which we have not seen before, as climate change affects our weather and the oil painting we thought "perpetual growth" was, is cracking, peeling and in desperate need of renovation.

How might we go about restoring our world? 

It seems unlikely to be through working harder, going back to our offices, and carrying on where we left off before the pandemic - that's what got us here in the first place. Nor will we achieve it through blame, division, and populism. Bluster, "charisma", and wild eyed optimism have their limits and last no longer than autumn leaves in a storm. Finally, making questionable claims of how much money we are spending on the problem is as shallow as it is pointless - money is inert. Money doesn't do things, people with ideas do. Money is merely lubricant.

I think it comes down to re…