Why don’t we talk more about climate change?

Pakistan has been heavily affected by extreme weather events in recent years. Experts urge policymakers to implement existing policies – and lament that Pakistanis have too little interest in climate policy.

South Sudan has had to close schools for the second year in a row as temperatures rose to 45 degrees Celsius. It takes such clearly visible consequences of climate change to make people in this crisis-ridden country aware of the problem.

The climate crisis continues to devastate communities. And yet it has largely disappeared from global political discourse, while people continue to live their lives as if it were a crisis we could solve with an app. How could this happen?