The scientists have told us climate change is almost certainly due in some part due to human activity. The energy we use, the transport we travel on, the homes and offices we live in and use.
Previously we have been profligate in our use and abuse of the planet because we thought it was correct behaviour culturally to use everything we wanted when we wanted it. We allow our numbers to grow and most of our leaders encourage this so our invention of economic growth can be sustained.
We never think about the planet as a finite resource and we allow ourselves to be selfish as if it is expected and normal behaviour in our societies.
Our wanton destruction of the Earth's resources serve our desire for more and bigger goods, and property to show our status to others because deep inside us there is a disquiet, an insecurity, that we don't know how to deal with so we try to escape with shows superficial material wealth.
Our conscious actions are surely driven by these deeper feelings that make us feel inadequate without external displays of money and power. It is surely the understanding of these deeper desires and drives that is more important than the clamour for external signs of success.
Without awareness of ourselves at all levels will it be possible to stem our rape of the planet to live here as a species in a sustainable and natural harmony and therefore allow our only real home to support us without the prospect of irreversible climate change?
The choice is not how we can fix the weather with huge technological schemes but can we look to ourselves.
