Can the world muster the will to stave off a dark future?
Rather than despair and dwell on the failures of the past, countries and governments need to focus on what can still be done and what can still be salvaged.
So far, the collective effort to slow climate change has proved gravely insufficient. Getty
More than three decades ago, a collection of scientists assembled by the United Nations first warned that humans were fuelling a dangerous greenhouse effect and that if the world didn’t act collectively and deliberately to slow Earth’s warming, there could be “profound consequences” for people and nature alike.
