Stop Worrying and Embrace Change

Richard Gilmore

“When I was invited to contribute a chapter to a new book about climate change I found myself with a problem: how does one, in just a few thousand words, even begin to cover a subject of such scale and complexity? From which a myriad possible angles should the issue be approached? After all, I am not a scientist, nor am I an economist, a lawyer, a policy-maker, an engineer or a scholar. Although my career is now dedicated to science-based conservation, I am a latecomer to issues of the environment and climate change. It is only in the past few years that I have finally grasped the gravity and urgency of the issues we face …”