A report recently suggested 2 billion people will be living in extreme heat by 2070. Today's young people may well be dying in the heat or trying to escape uninhabitable regions, writesAs the world is experiencing record temperatures and parts of the Northern Hemisphere are under climate emergences, the urgency of climate change seems to have increased a notch.
Yet we seem to have an inability of leaders around the world to lead meaningful change world in relation to the climate. There is often more concern about their personal failings in terms of self-interest, ineffectiveness and national or international criminality. It really is time to look at the bigger picture.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.