As floods follow fires, we need to hold our leaders’ feet to the flames – or, for that matter, to the water

Environmentalists once saw abstraction as the biggest obstacle to climate action. How, they wondered, could one focus the public on the distant future?

Today, we confront the opposite problem, with the very immediacy of the crisis generating a strange paralysis.

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