Writing from the stemistry lab
What can be done?
by Marilyn Longstaff
We’re barging on, ignoring images of dying land, of drought, of flood, of pestilence and fire, of ice-floe-stranded polar bears – OK, as long as it’s elsewhere, ‘over there’; a little pity, maybe, but not enough for riot, fear. And politicians know we want to keep our four cars on the drive, throw away more than we eat, dress for summer in the freeze, laugh at global warming when it snows; they want our votes, so they’re too scared to make the changes that we need to save ourselves. And we’ll take others with us to extinction while the planet shakes itself and starts again, starts again – In the beginning.