Climate: Action and example needed

The first sentence in one of the earliest and most popular self-help books, The Road Less Travelled in 1978 was a banal statement of the blindingly obvious.
“Life is difficult” it told readers in search of whatever it was they thought might solve their problems, As unwelcome as it might be to the passionate youngsters who have been on the streets demanding radical action to prevent a planet-wide, man-made catastrophe, a standard guide to the environmental crisis we undoubtedly face would begin: Reversing climate change is difficult, and a government declaration, of the kind made in Dublin this week, and in London, of a climate and biodiversity emergency does not of itself make the challenge less formidable.