The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away, writes Guardian global environment editor Jonathan Watts
The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away
How can you expect people to act when the world around them continues burning through resources at a break neck pace?
One of mcdonalds in my city recently got turned into some sort of a light show/amusement parks for not more than a month.
Thousands kilowatt hours wasted, millions of LEDs, tons of steel and plastic, fuel to transport it here and there. All to promote a brand everybody already knows. Now go tell children to take shorter showers.
And we’re killing ourselves by not changing what we each can.
We need to act globally AND personally.
How can you expect people to act when the world around them continues burning through resources at a break neck pace?
One of mcdonalds in my city recently got turned into some sort of a light show/amusement parks for not more than a month. Thousands kilowatt hours wasted, millions of LEDs, tons of steel and plastic, fuel to transport it here and there. All to promote a brand everybody already knows. Now go tell children to take shorter showers.