Glocal Warming, Glocal Response

Glocal Warming, Glocal Response

It can be hard to conceive of an issue as big as climate change. Global warming is, after all, global — geographically but also as an idea. Reflecting its sprawling unknowability, some environmentalists like to say “think globally, act globally.” Others use the invented term “glocal” to describe a phenomenon that’s both planetary in scale and also felt and fought locally.

Still others — especially those themselves impacted — address the problem as purely locally as they do the rest of their lives. 

“Net Zero by 2030”

This feels like momentum, folks. 

The Guardian: “Three-quarters of Australians back target of net zero by 2030, Guardian Essential poll shows.”

Must each of us witness destruction like Australia has seen before we reach this conclusion… or have we all seen enough?

Net zero by 2030. If we want to survive in a world that’s something like the one we live in now, we must all be like the Australians, and demand nothing less than that. 

And then work our dingoes off for it ….