The Third Alternative
Surely, by now, everyone has heard of climate change. Everyone has some kind of ‘climate story’ — ways we understand and reconcile our lives to the predicament in which we find ourselves. So as part of that love for people (which is surely the first requirement of any activist), let’s hear people’s stories. And yes, I include the climate sceptics and the doom-mongers in this too. In fact, especially the deniers — their stories need to be heard above anyone. It’s a climate story of my own I’d like to describe in this essay. It’s not one I usually tell, because it seems so far out. But I’m going to share it and you can judge for yourself. What is climate change about really? Is it an economic question, is it an aesthetic question, is it even a theological question? Yes, it’s all of these! It just depends on how you frame the question. One way of thinking about climate change it to ask ourselves how far back in time we would be willing to live in order to have a sustainable p...