Two weeks ago I wrote – that if we keep on this path of not listening to the science on climate change, which is mostly driven by human activity, then around 2080 life as we know it would have crashed across the globe.

The big problem is governments around the world think climate change is something way into the future, so we can wait, or ‘pass the parcel’ of changes that we must make now, on to another day.

If you think about the years we have left as 58 steps up a mountain and the first 10 steps being the foothills, then we are on step 10 and just going onto step 11, past the foothills.

Climate change is not something in the future, but we are well on our journey.

From this height we can now look back and see the wrong path we have taken and in fact, how worryingly far we have gone so far.

As I write this, France now has over a hundred towns and villages that have no house tap water – they have run dry!

Right across Europe and the southern half of the UK, farmers are warning us that some crop yields could be 50% lower due to drought and not having the irrigation systems in place to do anything about it.

Personally I have been writing to the government for well over two years now, asking them to grow more food at home and to put in desalination plants to keep the crops watered.

I now have a letter of confession in my hands from DEFRA, that due to my persistence, uncovers the truth, that they have ‘no plans to grow more food in this country or water the crops we already have,’ which are dying.

This will leave us exposed to food shortages and expensive food in the future. Add to that, a growing population mostly due to immigration, legal and otherwise, will make it worse, due to converting farmland for housing.

This pressure for people to come to cooler countries will only increase as the world gets hotter. I did not expect the letter to be so frank and worrying.

In ancient Rome, there was a proverb that all Cease’s and Generals were instructed or told. It goes like this: ‘to be a great leader and to save and protect your nation, you must be more than clever and wise, you must be a person of vision.’ This was written more than a thousand years earlier in Proverbs 29, in the old testament; ‘Without vision the people perish.’

This proverb remains true to this very day. If ever there was a time for a person of vision to govern our country, it’s now!

The list of what needs to change grows longer by the day. Have you noticed that over many governments, it seems to be that whoever is appointed Environment Minister, seems to be the person who has the least vision and is not looked upon as the big job like the chancellor or home secretary?

A person of vision on the eleventh step would see what I see, and act dramatically!