Why on Earth is a serious writer on climate change writing a blog on 'Climate Optimism'? Simply, because the solutions to climate change have multiple benefits for people, society and the environment.

In this article I outline how we have waged a 'war' against the harm caused by smoking over several decades and how this is a good analogy for how society should tackle our climate crisis. First published as an opinion piece in the Scotsman on 8 October 2021.