From Lucian McLellan
Fred Pearce’s review of Windfall by McKenzie Funk presents us with selfish businesses looking forward to climate change so long as they can make a profit out of it (29 March, p 52). These companies must be thinking of the story of the two explorers on the veldt being charged by a lion. One looks with derision at the other, who is hurriedly putting on running shoes, scoffing that he hasn’t a chance in hell of outrunning a lion. “I only need to run faster than you,” the runner coolly replies.
These businesses need to see that a collapsing ecosystem isn’t a single lion, but a surrounding circle of them. The urge to remain the wealthiest in a doomed species will bring death by pride.
Bristol, UK
