From inaction to panic

Can we get accustomed to the unpredictable? Can we prepare ourselves for something that wreaks havoc with plans and daily rituals? The truth is that we have to start coming to terms with the fact that extreme weather phenomena will not be an occasional occurrence from now on, that it will hit us with increasing intensity and that its impact will become all the harder to calculate. July 2023 is on course to becoming the hottest recorded in hundreds if not thousands of years on planet Earth as a whole, according to a leading NASA climate expert.

It takes quite a lot of psychological strength to absorb such dystopian forecasts without being shaken to your core, both as an individual and as a society. Scientists agree that this dystopia is no longer in the future; it is here, today. The debate about the causes, the preventive actions that were never taken, the measures that if...