 |
There’s no way around it: to solve the worsening climate crisis requires we accept both that the vast majority of easily extracted fossil fuels must now be left underground, and that through democratic planning, we must collectively reboot our energy, transport, agricultural, production, consumption and disposal systems so that by 2050 we can live good lives with less than a quarter of the world’s current levels of greenhouse gas emissions.
That’s what science tells us, with a punctuation mark provided by the near-disaster at Sheffield Beach during intense storms last week, when a 40-year old oil tanker, MT Phoenix, drifted from the long queue at Durban’s harbor entrance and grounded on the rocky shoreline 25km north of the city.
Read Publication 
|
