Breda O’Brien: breaking the silence on climate change
Irish people may not realise how important the conversation is on climate change
US secretary of state John Kerry speaking at the COP22 climate change conference in Marrakech, Morocco, on Wednesday. Photograph: Reuters/Mark Ralston
Most people who like to read probably have a couple of books that sit in a privileged spot on a bookshelf because they wielded so much influence on their thinking that it is comforting to have them close to hand. For me one of those books is The Spiral of Silence by Elisabeth Noelle Neumann.