Big Smile, No Teeth: Now is the time for action against climate change

“The world is at a crossroads” was a chilling statement from four former presidents of the United Nations-sponsored talks on climate change. They went on to state that “decisive action in the next two years will be crucial”.

With this dire opening of the climate talks in Poland, and with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming earlier this year stating that we have “12 years” left with life as we know it, I figured something would have started happening by now. I turned on the television and, lo and behold, there was a debate on the news about “are we doing enough to curb climate change?”