Blind eye to bad weather

Warming up: Arctic sea ice is melting fast, retreating each summer. It is now less than two-thirds of the area it covered in the early 1970s. — Reuters

We can all see the warning signs but most of us are guilty of being unwilling to change

IT’S quite likely that at a crucial point in my schooling life, I was exposed to environmentally radical teachers, but I certainly didn’t recognise it at the time. After all, it just sounded like common sense. Recycling. Greenhouse gases. Ozone layer. Acid rain. Oil spills. Deforestation. Buzzwords for a cause that is of the utmost importance, yet has so easily been swept aside.