We’re running out of time on climate melting pot

It's a bit like saving for your pension. You can see the merits of it, but not the urgency. You know it’s important — that cold wash of terror running through your body tells you so. You feel that wash, the odd time, when you find yourself imagining life at 80, living on a quarter of your current salary and factoring in the cost of nearby nursing homes.

Anything to do with the climate feels the same. Change sounds great in theory, or simply in neighbourly talk, but the urgency just isn’t there.