As the global environmental conference, COP27, unfolds, looking, yet again, at what can be done to slow climate change, we can only hope it might untangle some of the conflicting calls from activists. For, abandoning food security for the world’s poorest in order to lengthen Earth’s viability for the richest is not the best answer humanity can manage.
Which makes it time, considering the gravity and pace of global warming, to face some tough questions about what we all really need to do: versus the fake debates that have captured policies and policy makers into a cycle of hunger games.