Suzanne Harrington: I mean, really, what planet is Jeff Bezos actually on?
The rage surges flashing through me at Jeff Bezos’ latest vanity project - sending wealthy individuals into space so that they can see the earth’s curvature out a rocket window – could jumpstart his launchpad. Picture: AP Photo/John Locher, File
You know when we talk about sustainability and how it makes us worried that we are not doing enough to reduce our carbon footprint? Of course, we recognise this feeling. Sustainability anxiety has been drilled into us like a mad dentist with a jackhammer.
The responsibility has been individualised, trickling down onto us in a cascade of fear and guilt. Our fault, our fault, our fault. But is it though? Is climate catastrophe really the entire fault of us, the little people with our plastic straws and our tumble driers?
