Here’s a thought-provoking article. Extract:<\/p>\n
"Climate change isn’t just a threat. It’s an opportunity for us to live
\nhappier, more fulfilling lives. The fossil fuel age changed every
\ndetail of western human life – where we lived, how we travelled (and
\nhow much), what we ate, how our economies worked. But there were two
\nchanges in particular that it wrought – huge changes. Changes so huge
\nthey redefine the meaning of huge. One is physical – the sudden onset
\nof a rapid warming that will change the very geography of the planet in
\nalmost unbelievable fashion over the next century. We live on a
\ndifferent earth already, and it is going to get worse fast. Way worse.
\nThe other is psychological – cheap fossil fuel tipped the balance in
\nthe modern mind between self as individual and self as member of
\ncommunity. It made us different people. Worse people. And so here’s the
\ngood news – fighting either problem means fighting them both. We’ve
\nbeen backed into a corner, and the only way out is the right way…" <\/p>\n
Link below.<\/p>\n