Climate change and the SEP drive

Abstract

Fans of Douglas Adams will recognise the scene. There’s a spaceship landed at Lords cricket ground, but no one notices because of the SEP field. As Ford Prefect explains: ‘An SEP is something we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s Somebody Else’s Problem ... The brain just edits it out, it’s like a blind spot.’ 1 The technology must have moved on since 1982, as the SEP field seems to have been applied to something much bigger. Described by the Lancet as ‘The biggest global health threat of the 21st century’, climate change is the ultimate SEP for us. We act on other threats to health, such as smoking, …