We are not lines on graphs

A street full of people

If we understand climate change as only being about numbers, we won’t understand people – or how power works.

For Business Green (paywall, free trial):

https://www.businessgreen.com/opinion/3008252/three-reasons-that-we-are-not-lines-on-graphs

Reproduced by NEF, here.

Power. We need to talk about power. There’s a reason many of the world’s richer economies have done so little for so long on climate change. It’s hard, and it makes you powerful enemies. We’re talking about a mass disruption: a rapid change from one state to another. That’s scary to a lot of people with a lot of power.