My commenting on the climate and ecological emergency, is becoming personally disturbing to me, because although I have been aware from when I was 10 years old, 56 years ago, in 1970, that we "could" be heading towards global catastrophe, unless we changed our unsustainable exploitation of natural system. None of this was inevitable. I say "could" because as long as the dangers were acknowledged and acted upon in a rational way, no catastrophe was locked in. This is a straight forward rational process. In 1972 there was the first UN Environment Conference in which these dangers were recognised them, and an Action Plan was agreed to avert these dangers. The 1992 Rio Earth Summit, where the UNFCCC, framework on climate change was signed, only happened because no action had been taken on the 1972 Action Plan. Remember, these were UN events, where governments of the world quite freely recognised these dangers, and willingly agreed action to prevent catastrophe. That we have a full-blown emergency now, is purely that governments have failed to take the action, that they willingly agreed to, at these conferences and other world meetings/conferences. This is hard to understand in rational terms. If someone drives on a high speed motorway or highway, or whatever they are called in that country, no high speed crash is inevitable at the end as long as the driver follows the signs, and slows down at the end of their high speed drive. Same on train tracks etc, at the end of plane journeys. It only becomes catastrophic, if a driver fails to slow down, and just drives on at speed. Essentially, this is what our governments have done. They were told danger was ahead, if they carried on with business as usual, but they claimed they recognised the danger, and would change from the path they were on. Except they didn't, they carried on at full speed, and failed to slow down and change direction, although they had agreed to that, on multiple occasions. Self-evidently, it puts you in an invidious position, to have to say to our leaders, excuse me, but you are recklessly driving us into the wall. No one, especially a political leader, likes to be told they are behaving like a lunatic, and putting us all in grave danger. You will get all sorts of disapproval, as it is not seen as the done thing, to challenge a major leader, with a gigantic ego, that there something seriously wrong with their judgement. Of course, those who don't want the suicidal course we are on mentioned, want to deter people from pointing it out. So they use all sorts of bullying tactics, to discourage you, and to give up calling out the danger. So constantly pointing out the danger, and reminding those in charge, that they are acting with an insane disregard to the danger, makes those honestly calling it out, are placed in a very high stress situation. Where you will be accused of being alarmist, needlessly causing panic or of having a hidden political or ideologic danger. This is why our governments are behaving so dishonestly and oppressively, because by not acknowledging the situation, the danger, they put all the responsibility onto activists, to point out the dangerous recklessness of our political masters.