Facing Day Zero with Ashwell Glasson

We’ve been here before. At every convention of parties from Kyoto to Paris, from Millennium Development and Sustainability Goals to CITES, to Climate Talks by our worlds leading conservationists and scientists, we fail to fully commit to cleaning up our individual and collective act. We keep setting the bar for culpability and responsibility lower, and cooperation and sanctions farther afield down the timeline. From benchmarks set in 2000, to 2020, to 2050, we keep thinking we can dodge Day Zero. We are closer now to the proverbial Midnight than we were a half-century ago. Granted, since the 1960s and the recognition of a Silent Spring, we have accomplished a tremendous amount, albeit out of balance. What we must ask ourselves now, is are we doing all that we can? Today with Ashwell Glasson we discuss the water crisis in Cape Town, where the distance between comfort and discomfort has hit home right at the tap in a cosmopolitan 1st world city, and that we are all facing Day Zero.