It is sometimes said that people don’t become radicalised by reading books or listening to speeches, but by their own direct experience. If so, then the increasingly tangible evidence of the way climate change is threatening the very way of life of so much of humanity has convinced more and more people that the need to act is both real and urgent.
Tackling the climate crisis is critical to the future of humanity, and freakish weather from pole to pole, and from oceans to deserts and disappearing islands, is as powerful an argument for action as any.