This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or to stop and redefine itself. This is about much more than climate change. This is about us.
I think this article by George Monbiot really gets down to the core of things. The idea he puts forward here is one that has been very much on my mind as I've read reports from Copenhagen on the plight of the world's indigenous peoples, and especially those island and coastal nations that are immediately at risk for displacement as a consequence of climate change.
