Life is fine just the way it is, but. . . . .!

I like life just the way it is.

Working fewer hours is integral
to responding to climate change.

Sadly, it is not likely to change, it is going to change!

The prognosis for humanity’s future is less than encouraging as circumstances prompted by our consumptive behaviours collide drawing us little by little and quicker and quicker toward the abyss.

Even if we stopped consuming, stopped burning fossil fuels and stopped living the wasteful life typical of the world’s developed countries right now, we are still committed to a global increase in temperatures of at least two degrees and to soar past carbon dioxide content in the earth’s atmosphere of 400 parts per million (ppm).

Not long ago it was considered that the point of no return was 350ppm and now we are at about 398ppm and rogue weather events all around the world suggest the 350ppm warning was timely.

The shift to a Four-Hour Work Day brings societal complications difficult to explain and necessitates change to our way of living that almost exceed, or do exceed, our understanding.

Those complications, it must be said, are miniscule compared to what is ahead is we do not step away from out consumptive behaviours.

The idea of working fewer hours is hugely inadequate in terms of responding to the implications settling upon earth because of our changing climate, but if nothing more, it is an acknowledgement that we must do something.

The implications of working fewer hours is simple – we will earn less money and so be able to consume less and subsequently use less of everything, especially energy, most of which is generated by burning fossil fuels.

A working day of just four hours contradicts everything the neo-liberals believe in and rather than having people working fewer hours, they would prefer to see work based on a 24-hour cycle, seven days a week.

Such a concept will unquestionable disrupt earth’s ecology and reduce our future to just decades rather than millennia.