Solutions Are Out There

COP26 is at its midway point; everyone gathered to talk through what is wrong and what we should do. Which is simultaneously the time when journalists report what experts say is wrong, what experts say we should do, and why humans are not going to do it.

It’s madness, right? I mean, we can see the effects of climate change right now. And there are companies that can take steps to curb carbon emissions. But they are not going to take these steps because… cost? Because the people making the decisions will not be alive to see the impact of these decisions?

I love this essay that touches on this phenomenon of not taking steps to fix a problem. She writes: “It’s not enough just to notice there’s something wrong, although that is a necessary and often difficult stage of finding a solution to a problem. You have to then do something.”

She goes from wet to dry, realizing it was always in her power to make her life better. (Or, at least, a lot less damp.)

Thinking about how the solutions are out there. Will we enact them immediately?