EDITORIAL: None of our political elite deserves our vote. How can we entrust our futures to people who put their next shopping trip ahead of our continued existence?
Our climate is collapsing. At least 70 people died in KwaZulu-Natal this week, as tonnes of rain smashed into the ground and water tore through poorly built infrastructure. Hundreds died in Mozambique as Cyclone Idai ripped an entire city apart.
It would seem reasonable to expect that this massive economic loss, and continuing deaths as ecosystems collapse, would be treated as issues of grave concern by the politicians asking for our votes in less than two weeks’ time. Without a living world, there is no life. Without life, there are no voters. Without a mandate, you cannot control the levers of patronage. But our political establishment has been deafening in its silence on climate change.
Words. Tick-box exercises, because climate change is now an issue of international diplomacy. You don’t want to be seen to be ignoring a problem that is literally drowning island states. But there’s no such concern about side-stepping the problem when talking to voters.
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