Confronting climate change: Tedium hits response to planet’s crisis

Tedium brings great vulnerability; a wavering, easily-broken concentration means important decisions can be made or, worse, neglected as we daydream. Were we not, like one of WWII’s cannon-fodder penal divisions, in the maw of the Brexit monster we would have, as much of Europe has, moved on to more uplifting things.

However, our relationship with Britain is central to our economic wellbeing and everything that flows from it. Disengagement is not an option. Dependent as we are on Britain we are utterly dependent on the wellbeing of this planet yet there is a growing air of tedium, of not-our-problem denial around climate change.