We are in the same boat

Is this reality truly understood? When we look at how the governments of the richest countries behave, it doesn’t seem so.

A consensus on climate change should be obvious.

“Because others don’t act, why should we? We’ll just lose the economic war.”

Well, since we — unfortunately? — share the same boat, and it’s the only one we have, it won’t be just the economic war that is lost.

The scale of climate change, as well as its impact, may be too difficult for some to grasp. A presidential mandate lasts only a few years, while our actions must be planned over decades or even centuries.

Human beings tend to see only what lies directly in front of them, and if climate change doesn’t affect them right now, it simply doesn’t exist in their minds.
But Earth is the only boat we have.

And whether we sink with it or not is in our hands.