Individual responsibility and action for change

The context for change is now entirely different from when the first edition of this book was published in 2014. The criticality of the emergencies we face from the climate crisis, the biodiversity and nature crisis and the pollution and waste crisis is acknowledged almost everywhere. As was made clear in the earlier parts of this book, we simply know, now, that we HAVE to change – and quickly. There are many opportunities and much available capability to make the changes we need, but there is still a cognitive dissonance between recognising the rapidly accelerating emergencies that we face and taking actual actions to change infrastructure that tackle their root causes. So, as individuals, acting for change can still be hard to do.