Antonio Guterres, at a previous COP talkfest, said that in tackling climate change, humanity must unite, and if not, we perish. David Attenborough said the battlefield in the push for meaningful action is in communications.
Both are correct: without unity, we will not be able to address the climate problem, and with communications near-exclusively controlled by capital and government, we are going into battle with our feet tied together.
Looking around the world today, most of what we see points to increasing division, creating ever more distractions from the primary threat confronting life on planet Earth. News is dominated by stories and debates that will not matter one iota in today’s children’s adult lives. Opposing genocide is a must because unity cannot exist in a world where international humanitarian law has ceased to exist. If genocide is committed unopposed, then beyond the immediate injustice and suffering inflicted on the innocent, it will become an acceptable solution to the highly possible waves of climate refugees escaping regions that, without action on climate, will become functionally uninhabitable.
Earlier today, I listened to someone debunking the Noah’s Ark story, and Oscar Wilde saying that there are no bad books, but only bad readers, came to mind. It is a teaching story, and a very simple one that warns us that a civilisation can drown in its own evil. The Ark is a belief system that holds all life sacred. Climate change, nuclear weapons stacked to the rafters, and the unforgiving waters are rising.