Is it time to reverse tracks, put the transport juggernaut into reverse and return to a slightly more leisurely time? The planet will breathe a small sigh of relief.
Both world wars saw the development of international agencies for cooperation between the countries of the world, will climate change see something similar?
It has been a long time coming, but the idea that your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose starts has finally been applied to the smoke from cigarettes.
Civilization, it seems, can only be defended by having bigger and bigger percentages of your citizens spending their lives locked away, or even, in America and China, having their lives taken away from them.