Remember what really matters when addressing climate change

We shouldn’t get distracted by economic growth and technological progress because the best gift we can give future generations is a sustainable, life-supporting

Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.The results of climate change have become increasingly impossible to ignore. The alarming shifts in weather patterns and the frequency of extreme climatic events are stark reminders of the urgency of this crisis.

What we deeply desire is the power to choose: to choose what we see, what we hear and who we wish to become. This ability to choose defines our sense of freedom and authenticity. The extent to which we exercise these choices is the extent to which we feel fully alive and truly ourselves. Ultimately, as humans, we are not merely shaped by our circumstances but by the summation of the choices we make.

, Stephen Gardiner identifies three critical challenges — what he terms “storms” — that hinder effective action against climate change. These are the global storm, the intergenerational storm and the theoretical storm, collectively referred to as the “perfect moral storm”. In South Africa, take for instance, recurring floods in KwaZulu-Natal and the contamination of clean water caused by mining activities in Limpopo.

Even worse are commuters who roll down their car windows to discard waste, when they could easily have kept it in their car until they reached a proper disposal point.

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