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Grandpa, What Did You Do In The Climate Crisis?
How do you want to be able to answer that question?
Days of reckoning come. Not for everyone, not always.
But when they do, and if you’re caught on the wrong side of them, it’s a hard place to be.
So what happens, in 40 years time, when the collective decisions and actions all of us take around climate right now, fully play out, and our kids and grandchildren ask us how they have ended up where they are?
The Early Adopters
At the beginning of any new movement, technological advance or period of change there are people who get it straight away. Nearly always they get laughed at.
Years later you look back and realise they were right all along, and if you were one of the people who didn’t take them seriously, you look very silly.
I used to work in music radio and when I was a junior at a high profile national station, one of our DJs — who had the reputation for being a bit of a geek (before it was cool) — sat next to me at the editing computers.
We got chatting and I asked what he was working on. He said “a podcast” and explained to me what it was — a bit like a radio programme but not broadcast live.
