There is a line I've been thinking about every time I think about the climate crisis

over the past few months and it's not, from anything serious, it's that line from Titanic

where they realise there are two few lifeboats and one character explains, but half the people

on this boat are going to die, and the response is, yes, but not the better half.

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I am James Butler, not the better half, hard not to think that's climate politics for our

time, isn't it? There aren't enough lifeboats so screw anyone who can't make it to them.

How did we end up thinking like this? Is that really how it's going to be some brutal

zero-sum game in a climate dystopia fighting desperately for the little that's left?

Does it have to be that way?

Well, you're not going to be surprised that the answer is no, even if at times that seems

hard to escape. If you're politically involved, of course, it will have been hard to have missed

the conversation and campaign over the last couple of years for a green, new deal. In

fact, it's become such a slogan that it's sometimes hard to remember what it involves

and it sometimes seems to encompass just about everything in a sense. That's not wrong.

It is, after all, an attempt to add a response to the total nature of the ecological crisis,

one that links it not to some abstract sense of the environment, something that's out there

to be saved, but that links it to the pressures and concerns of human social life, almost

every aspect of which is touched by this crisis and it's deep into that story about how

things got broke and how it might fix them that we're getting today.

My name is Kate Airena. So I have been full-time reporting now for about four years and got

into this world of climate stuff in general as a student actress. In college, I work on something

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