Climate change is real alright, and it’s us causing it

October 22, 2025

Chas Keys poses an interesting question. If it’s not human activity causing the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we’re in more trouble than we realise. Not that we aren’t already facing enormous difficulties. The climate data being collected makes it abundantly clear the planet is entering the feedback climate loop peer-reviewed science has warned of since the 1970s.

We’ve had half a century to validate we’ve fully evolved as thinking hominids. That we haven’t is confirmed by the depth of climate denialism across the world. Whether it’s compelled by greed, ideology or ignorance is immaterial, the outcome’s the same; we find ourselves in useless debate when co-ordinated action is required.

At this moment in human evolution, let’s not confuse sophistication with wisdom. It’s the material cleverness of man the toolmaker that’s got us to where we are now; able to destroy the stable climate that sustains us. And it’s selfishness that’s driving our actions, or non-action, to deal with the main issue on which we should be focusing, and that’s preparing humanity for a future beyond its Holocene experience.