Climate must be treated as a crisis

When will governments and other global decision makers finally listen to the concerns of millions of people everywhere about the ravaging effects of climate change?

Maybe they already are. In September an estimated 7m people — mostly young activists — took to the streets around the world and yesterday protesters in a smoke-covered Sydney kicked off a fresh round of global protests against climate change yesterday, mostly by young activists and schoolchildren. The protests have taken on extra urgency in Australia where part of the south-east of the country has been devastated by hundreds of bush fires in recent weeks.