Cop28: Why is nobody tuning in, when the world is burning?

Climate change, the biggest challenge our world faces, can’t hold the attention of audiences or readers. That has to be addressed, writes Eoin Hahessy

Senegalese women marching in the third edition of the Women's March for Climate in Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday, November 25. The protesters aim to relay and make heard the voices of African and Senegalese women, especially from rural areas, who are heavily impacted by the effects of climate change, and to pass on their messages and recommendations to the world leaders taking part in COP 28 in Dubai. Photo: AP/Sylvain Cherkaoui

David Attenborough awakened our conscience to the beauty of the natural world, his art was in the simplicity of his communication and his passion for the beauty of nature spilled from generation to generation. 

Since acid rain arrived in our textbooks in 1990s the subject of climate change has fought for our attention. A school strike by a young Swedish girl caught the attention of the global press and Greta Thunberg inspired a movement across the world.