Climate change: We’re still dodging our obligations

The depth of the crisis is so very incomprehensible, so vast, so beyond the scale of our experience, that it is very difficult for a small country like Ireland, or even any individual, to seemingly make a worthhile contribution. Unfortunately, that failure to make this connection has encouraged evasive, delusional behaviour.
That wishful thinking — a most optimistic definition — may be behind the inability to accept that some of our deeply embedded business practices are unsustainable. It may also have helped create a cultural expectation that new rules do not apply to us as they do to others. It’s as if we imagine we live on a planet other than the one so many others are working so very hard to save.