An excellent piece, Greta, which echoes what so many of us feel about the ineptitude and apathy of politicians in addressing the climate emergency.

However, I feel what a lot of these kinds of articles miss, in both calling for action from politicians or in condemning them for inaction, is the opportunity to hold ordinary, everyday people to account.

Yes, politicians should be doing more - a lot more - to address this catastrophe and mitigate the damage caused by humanity, but let's not forget that the businesses which are doing the damage are run -and staffed - by ordinary people and their products are consumed by ordinary people.

It's easy to blame government and big business for the problems, but it is ordinary people who buy and use the millions of cars jamming up the roads every day and necessitating more rivers of tar - indeed, it is ordinary people who lay those rivers of tar.

It is ordinary people who fly in the aeroplanes that burn thousands of tons of fuel every year.

It is ordinary people who pay billions of dollars to the animal agriculture industry, responsible for vast amounts of greenhouse gasses and other pollution for meat, dairy, eggs and other harmful, unhealthy products we don't need.

It is not only politicians trying their best to carry on ‘business as usual’ — it is ordinary people, too.

Yes, we need to keep up the pressure on the politicians to pull out their collective finger and mobilise Herculean efforts to try to avert the worst disaster in human history, but we also, each and every one of us, need to do what we can as individuals, as consumers, as polluters, do reduce our own impact upon the Earth.

Only then can we expect the changes we need to see.