By BBC News
Let’s not beat around the bush: the simple answer has to be yes; individual action is pointless.
Think about it: what difference does one person forgoing a lamb chop for a lentil bake, deciding to catch the bus rather than take their car, or deciding not to jet off for that autumn getaway away in the Balearics make if the other 7,699,999,999 of us humans here on Earth don’t do anything?
It is a dispiriting conclusion and begs an obvious question, and one that I am sure has already occurred to you: why bother?
That’s exactly what I asked the 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg when I met her last month. Rather than fly to her climate change meetings in New York, Miss Thunberg had opted to be whisked across the Atlantic on a racing yacht.
You remember the boat, the one with the bright blue plastic poo bucket? Read more>>
