Every week there is a new virus, or a financial collapse, a catastrophic hurricane or a drastic increase in food shortages, and the ramifications that follow rumble on through days and months, sometimes years, brushing by some people and hitting others square on. Climate change and rapid population growth – a potent, foreboding pair – are already delivering blows that are sudden and staggering; they are also causing cumulative, damaging environmental change that makes people’s everyday lives increasingly difficult. Rich and poor, young and old feel the impact of global crises, in developed and developing countries. The difference lies in the.
