The International Court of Justice ruled this week that countries are legally obligated to limit global warming to 1.5°C. It’s the strongest statement yet on the climate crisis from the world’s top legal authority — and it raises a question I can’t stop thinking about.
In times of existential threat, societies have radically restructured themselves before. During the world wars, entire economies were transformed almost overnight. Rationing, mobilisation, repurposing of industries — nothing was off the table. So why not now? If the climate crisis truly threatens the future of human civilisation (and it does), then why is the global response still so… incremental? What are we waiting for?
Image from Asia Pacific Report NZ.
(This post was written with the help of AI, based on my own work and ideas. Here’s why I do it this way: Link.)
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