Given that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and that climate disasters are continuing to cause havoc around the world with increasing severity, the need to take climate change seriously is obvious. Yet, curbing carbon emissions is not proving easy.

Powerful fossil fuel lobbies continue resisting the need to curb carbon emissions. Being unable to secure the net-zero emission targets, the last climate summit in Dubai settled on trying to transition away from fossil fuels instead. This much more fluid goal of decreasing carbon emissions seems callous given the stress being placed on varied natural systems, which enable life to exist on our planet.

However, climate deniers seem to enjoy popular support even in the most powerful countries in the world. After winning the US elections, President Trump has again pulled his country out of the already floundering Paris climate agreement and even cut back aid to help poorer countries become climate resilient.

The desire to continue making profits has taken precedence over the need........

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