On August 6th, in the first part of a series of reports, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gave humanity a code red alert, and told us that the Earth could be just 10 years from heating by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. If we exceed this threshold we're in for even more serious and frequent fires, droughts, floods and cyclones. Mark Blyth is a political economist at Brown University in the US and says that all we can expect from this news "is for governments to redouble their usage of a time-tested rhetoric of distraction called "getting back to normal". Karyn talks to Mark about how we take action when, as humans, he believes we're hard-wired to expect equilibrium.
Mark Blyth is a political economist at Brown University in the US Photo: Supplied
