Welcome to ‘uncharted territory’

If we’re already 'in uncharted territory,' then what do we do next? There is no realistic short-term way to boost our emissions cuts: even if the will were there, the alternative energy sources take much time to build.

Tropical Storm Trami, pictured, is a large, catastrophic cyclone that hit the Philippines, and impacted Vietnam, Thailand, and China in October 2024. The Philippines was hit by six cyclones last October, and still there’s no big public demand there for a rapid switch to renewable energy sources, writes Gwynne Dyer.Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 3, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—The New Year is when we do the accounts for the past year, and the bad news always gets top billing: how many wars are going on, how big were the natural disasters, etc.? Climate change now has its own slot in this annual accounting, and here is what the clima...

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