Thomas Jackson's Website

Everybody has views on climate, although most of us do not really know what we are talking about. We must hope that the sceptics are right. But what if they are wrong? The future consequences would then be so appalling, it is surely the height of folly not to take the advice of the scientific majority. In any case, ever scarcer oil will bring ever greater problems, even perhaps vicious resource wars. There is a still better reason for getting out of fossil fuels a.s.a.p. It would be like beginning again. We could create a new world. Climate change is not only a problem, it is a wonderful opportunity.

 

To meet this immense challenge we will need to reach deeply within ourselves. In the author’s case the attempt has led to a joyful rediscovery of Christian contemplation, but, clearly, the journey deep into the heart can take many forms. The diary entries are interspersed with comic fantasies. The worst thing we can do is approach the climate problem in attitudes of gloom and despair. We need to imagine a new world. Our spirits are going to need a few squirts of WD40.