If we were to face the awful reality that 1.5C is gone, more people might well be jolted into truly stepping up, writes Rupert Read 

“You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot, some little … And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein.

The real climate emergency is that we don’t treat the climate crisis as an emergency because we feel no emergency. Call this ‘the meta-emergency’.

As a philosopher who thinks about climate change, a central concern motivating my work in recent years has been anguish that our species and our political-economic systems are dangerously short-termist. Indeed, I have a book coming out soon on just this: in Why Climate Breakdown Matters, I set out the pressing need for humanity to become more “long-termist” in its outlook.

If 2021 has taught us anything, it’s that time is up for business as usual.

There are many ways to have a ‘greener’ more ‘eco-friendly’ and ‘sustainable’ Christmas although most of them still rely on some level of consumption but what if you want to go further still? Rupert Read has some thoughts.