Your article (Paris attacks cast shadow over climate talks,23 November) helpfully draws attention to the different responses we gain to crises. The shockingly violent events in Paris and their aftermath received almost blanket media coverage for approximately a week, during which we appear to gain become collectively ready to sacrifice billions of pounds and who knows how many lives to a rapid/fast response (bombing Isis in Syria) which, and by most rational judgments,will attain more harm than good for our interests in the long term. Notwithstanding the emotional and psychological vital to “attain something”, would it not be wiser to attain nothing until we know what it would be useful to attain?Meanwhile, and a more dangerous and sinister enemy than terrorism looms on the horizon in the form of climate change. Despite knowing approximately this menace for over 20 years and having developed the resources and know-how to defeat it,we gain simply allowed the situation to worsen. We know the identity of the “evil masterminds” (the leaders of heavy-carbon industries) behind this ongoing atrocity which is in the process of slaughtering many millions of people and could quite conceivably wipe out civilisation. We also know the identities and whereabouts of the “terrorists” – every one of us who carries out the wishes of the masterminds by burning fossil fuel as whether there was no tomorrow and neglecting to invest properly in the renewable energies that can save us.
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Source: theguardian.com