“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words… How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you’re doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight?” With such powerful language did 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg reproach world leaders at the UN’s Climate Action Summit last month. The ferocity of the pink-cheeked teenager provoked a tidal wave of reactions. I have a few observations myself….
One: a hectoring tone rarely helps to bring people on side, especially when you are the smallest person in the room. Two: it is true that government and business could have done more (and still should) to tackle emissions and rising global temperatures. Three: things are much easier said than done. Take the example of electric vehicles, a key topic at our own recent conference in the US, AL Global Detroit (for the report click here). Why aren’t the roads swarming with EVs?
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