Climate crisis

Also, quite generally, on the 'personal responsibility' thing ... it's all very well to start there, but each individual person/household has so much less power than elected politicians or large corporations that it's simply unwise to start only there. Sure, once in a blue moon you might get everybody doing 'the right thing', but people have been told this for at least thirty or forty years, at least since the energy crises, and it hasn't had any great effect. Of course people should try to reduce and adapt their personal consumption. I'm vegan (although certainly not for environmental reasons (the Vegan Society has got it right: 'For people, animals, and the environment', in that order) and I don't fly, yada yada, and I can give myself a pat on the back for that, but do I think that it makes a great deal of difference? Not really. All of that shouldn't detract from the immense destruction caused by resource exploitation, for instance, that we could quite easily avoid if the right political decisions were made without taking a massive hit to the luxury of our lifestyle. And, well, I suppose I'm not talking about 'post-factual' politics, but rational and informed politics. Well, you can dream.