John Gibbons: Blindly following 'sensible' mainstream voices is leading us to the abyss

John Gibbons: To the governments and business leaders talking big on climate action while doing nothing to deal with the emergency, UN secretary general Guterres was especially scathing: “Simply put, they are lying”.

Trying to contemplate how a civilisation guided by science and reason would deal with the rapidly unfolding climate emergency requires paying a visit to a parallel universe. Here, the global climate and biodiversity crisis is front and centre of every part of our everyday lives; children learn about it from pre-primary onwards.

Most of our school-leavers and graduates go on to work in clean energy, sustainable organic food production, active travel, and the scores of projects and initiatives that have sprung up around community resilience, domestic tourism, and energy conservation.