Photo credit: Thomas Christofoletti. A waste burner attached to an exporting Cambodian garment factory, from Disaster Trade.
In November 2019, 11,000 scientists from around the world united to declare a climate emergency (The Independent, 2019), insisting, as have media and political forces from the Guardian newspaper to the UK parliament, on an end to business as usual. As they declared at the time, the world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless global society accepts major transformations. Simply put: