Suzanne Harrington: Our desire to obey is why corporations are getting away with destroying the planet

"We’ve ditched the plastic bags, straws and coffee cups, maybe even gone vegan or got an electric car or stopped flying - so what more can we do, short of going off grid and upholstering ourselves in solar panels?"

Suzanne Harrington.

Someone forwards a clip of a dinosaur – it looks like a T Rex, although I’d have to ask a palaeontologist - walking into the UN assembly hall. Oooooh. A trailer for a new Jurassic Park film? As global UN representatives freeze in terror, the dinosaur asks the petrified security guard if he’s ok, before taking the mic at the main podium and giving a little speech. Turns out he’s a talking T Rex, with a gravelly American accent. And it’s not a movie trailer.

“Listen up people,” he says. “Going extinct is a bad thing. And driving yourselves extinct? In 70 million years that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. At least we had an asteroid. What’s your excuse?”