Alison O'Connor: The price we pay for ignoring climate change continues to spiral

As Oisín Coghlan of Friends of the Earth Ireland says, our stark choice is disruption now or destruction later on from climate change. The latter is more likely, Alison O'Connor feels

Second and third level students/pupils march on the streets during a Fridays For Future climate protest in Cork city earlier this year. Picture: Larry Cummins

What’s the point in reading any further? Why would you bother? From here until the final paragraph the subject matter under discussion is a complete turn-off for increasing numbers of people. In fact, if I never personally heard another word about it myself I’d be thrilled.

It feels, after all, that there is only so much human beings can tolerate, as we try to recover from a crippling pandemic and living through the horror of a war in Ukraine and the collateral damage that it is inflicting in terms of our ever-increasing cost of living.