When I look up at the sky, it’s not the sky I used to know.
When I sit outside in the sunshine, it’s not the sunshine I used to know.
It used to be such a treat living in Scotland when the sun came out, and the days were warm.
But there’s fear in it now,
a sense that this isn’t right, it being so hot in June.
Alarming statistics are beginning to appear.
One in six babies in England is living in an overheated home, a home that is dangerously too hot for the baby’s health.
One in six.
The economic orthodoxy that has said that we need to cut back public spending is causing terrible human suffering,
as well as appalling structural damage.
Couple this with the belief that dealing with the climate emergency is unpopular,
And you get a recipe for inaction.
it’s tempting to despair.
But today I have a sense that these sayings were not intended to inspire despair.
But hope.
Because things do not have to be this way….
And it’s in our hands to change them.
