As those most responsible for the crisis recede into history, our energy is better spent responding to the world we have created
After years of robust campaigning for climate preservation, writing books on climate change, scores of articles and hundreds of public talks – not to mention serving on the Climate Change Authority, helping set up an international taskforce and running for parliament – I couldn’t take it any more.
I became so despairing about where we were heading and the unwillingness of most to face up to reality that I stopped working on climate change altogether.