World leaders will and must make pacts and treaties, give speeches and support legislation to address climate change. But they will continue to drive their limos, jet internationally and live in climate controlled comfort in their multiple residences. They will not likely become examples of how all of us must live in this world of climate disruption.
Still, it is also their job to remind us that there are difficult and demanding times ahead, that we are all going to have to make the hard choices that the poor and disenfranchised all over the globe are already making. We have created a global web of mobility, consumption, excess and inequity that is not sustainable. The earth was not made for this many people behaving in this way. The little comforting efforts like recycling are not going to suffice. We all have to become canaries in the coal mine.
So now, with my little speech, how likely is it that I will continue to be just one more bad actor in this climate drama?
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