Political inaction will cost us the Earth

MARY Robinson would never cut it as Flash Gordon. While Flash had only 14 hours to save the universe, Mrs Robinson has given us all of 20 years to save the planet.

“Everybody has to think in terms of ‘we only have at most two decades to save the world’,” she said last week, on publication of the latest study that shows how we’re burning the planet to bits.

It was one of those weeks, when Armageddon loomed large on the horizon — globally and nationally.