Tomorrow never comes
Ask, in Spain, when a job will be done, and you will be told ‘manana’ – meaning tomorrow. Ask again the next day: same answer. Tomorrow never comes.
Manana is clearly the mantra for our governments when asked about when they’ll tackle our climate crisis effectively. They might take modest steps to take the heat out of environmental protests, but then they let the issue slip. Grasping the climate nettle might have been pretty straightforward thirty years or more ago, when the crisis now unfolding before our eyes was predicted by so many environmental scientists; but it would have been a bit uncomfortable, and effective action was readily undermined by the misinformation peddled by the fossil fuel advocates and by denialist politicians and media.
That nettle has, as predicted, become ever-harder to grasp, as the challenges of grasping it grow ever-steeper. Our government keep authorising new fossil fuel projects, in direct rejection of the IPCC declaration that they must not, maintaining their support of the fossil fuel industry who are bringing the crisis to a head as fast as they can. Grasping nettles is painful; continuing with the ‘same old same old’ is comfortable.
Climate crisis solution? Manana.
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