Climate change conversation reaching an inflection point

We are entering a period where big political and behavioural changes are possible, and we need to take maximum advantage of it.

The BC Wildfire Service, pictured responding on July 20 to the Tremont Creek wildfire, located approximately southeast of Ashcroft. We’re there at last: the heat waves and the storms of this northern hemisphere summer have been so far beyond the usual that the donkeys are finally getting the message, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Twitter via BC Wildfire Service

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 21, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Zeitgeist is a slippery word. At best it’s just a fancy German way of saying “the spirit of the times;” at worst it is only pretentious noise. So maybe we should say “inflection point” instead. I think we...

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