Tipping points
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This series of stories this morning in the Guardian about extreme heat in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Antarctica suggest that the world is finally hitting enough tipping points in regard to climate change that various forms of political and cultural denial and indifference are going to become less tenable, perhaps even rather quickly.
At least we can hope so. Social change is always difficult to predict, but after decades of slowly growing consciousness across the the world, the El Nino summer of 2023 may prove to be its own kind of tipping point in regard to some sort of collective shift on the most pressing issue of our time.
Related: A major factor in all this may prove to be something as prosaic as the insurance markets. As the old economic aphorism has it, the cure for high prices is high prices.