Re-Localising Food Production (Against the Current‪)‬

I was once cornered by a climate sceptic, who proceeded to tell me, at great length, that global warming was just an invention by us 'watermelons' because it gave us a way to scare people into accepting our green Stalinist agenda. It's a great conspiracy theory, and on one level it has an element of truth, but not in the way he meant. As global warming bears down on us, and as the science firms up around the fact that we will need to make dramatic reductions in our greenhouse emissions now, it is true to say that everything needs to be reconsidered, and that society must be re-formed, with sustainability at the core of our decision-making processes. At present we are still in the 'tinkering' phase, where techno-fixes, market-based solutions, behaviour change and weak international treaties are considered the main game.