Demonstrable Casualties of Climate Change

Modern inventions enhance our lives in so many wonderful ways.

The microwave oven enables us to ruin meals in a fraction of the time required by devices powered by gas, electricity or, at a pinch, wooden palings liberated from an absent neighbour’s fence. Mobile phones allow us to be annoyed at tremendous frequency by employers, family and the police, once that neighbour returns to his now-fenceless house. And powered flight gives us the opportunity to explore far-distant lands, and also to quickly flee them once we realise we’re in the Middle East.

But one invention stands above them all for utility and usefulness. One invention alone saves time and preserves sanity in ways previously unimagin­able. That this marvel has no physical form makes it more miraculous still.

I speak, of course, about climate change.

Remember when you had to invest considerable effort in discovering the worth of a person? Suppose you’re at a crowded bar, or surrounded by people at a dinner…