Mayer Hillman obituary

Pioneer of ideas about the climate crisis and road safety, and a champion of walking, cycling and children’s mobility In the late 1990s, the social scientist and author Mayer Hillman predicted that, in the future, our children and grandchildren would ask us what we did to prevent global climate catastrophe.

Twenty years later Greta Thunberg, addressing the UN , thundered: “You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. ” Twenty-five years ago, Hillman also warned that public denial of the climate crisis would only begin to crack when…