Introduction I watched the movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ the other night and it brought home the short term self-interest of those politicians who are not able to look ahead and prevent an avoidable existential disaster. It also reinforced how indoctrination and spreading of untruths through social media has become endemic. The Russian invasion of Ukraine …
The Issues We use resources unsparingly We, as individuals, are addicted to fossil fuels. We fill our cars with petrol or diesel, use LP gas for cooking and Eskom for our electrical needs without thinking about what this is doing to our environment. We buy products with little awareness of the environmental damage that has been …
Global warming is now very real. I hope that, by now, it’s clear to everyone that to save our planet from catastrophe, we must wean ourselves of fossil fuels. In yet another attempt to drive this forward, our world leaders are meeting in Glasgow in November to find common ground in the reduction of global warming …
