Paul Whyte: If we want a future we must fight apathy around climate crisis

We have seen these end-of-the-world narratives play out in our media many, many times. We are living out this disaster movie narrative, it is just happening in something similar to slow motion

The civil defence working with shop owners on Winthrop Street in Cork after early morning flooding. File picture: Dan Linehan

Of all the sobering variabilities surrounding the approaching climate crisis, there is one, which we can be certain of; Ireland will be one of the worst impacted by coastal flooding. 

If the science is correct, then even in the relative short term, our current governmental relief funding is unlikely to be anywhere near enough to assist those internally displaced by the impact.