Is battling back-to-back disasters distracting us from fighting the climate crisis? | Jeff Sparrow

As floods follow fires, we need to hold our leaders' feet to the flames - or, for that matter, to the waterEnvironmentalists once saw abstraction as the biggest obstacle to climate action. How, they wondered, could one focus the public on the distant future?Today, we confront the opposite problem, with the very immediacy of the crisis generating a strange paralysis. Continue reading...