Abstract
As anyone who engages in an attempt to reason with others about climate change and its implications knows, this is a domain that is rife with righteous certainty, conflict, ignorance and fear. One is quickly cast into one camp or another. Questions cause one to be instantly labelled climate change denialist - or alarmist - while exploration of fact and alternatives reach sudden dead-ends, and one's courage ebbs. And that is what happens in small forums, never mind the wider political sphere. The world in general and South Africa in particular have had a long succession of big fearful ideas about environmental change, each laden with the same kind of altercation - desiccation, desertification (and the invasion of the Karoo), nuclear winter, acid rain - and each with, at best, policy responses that have been only partially successful.
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