Time to fix responsibility for climate change

Global warming is one of the biggest challenges faced by humanity today.

- A Member Of The ANN ASIA NEWS NETWORK

As emissions continue to rise, global temperatures keep breaking records and the world's poorest nations bear the brunt of a crisis they did little to create. However, public discourse on climate responsibility remains mired in individualism. Citizens are told to recycle, go vegan and shrink their "carbon footprints" while systemic sources of emissions ~ from industrial production to state-backed fossil fuel subsidies ~ remain largely untouched. It is time the global conversation shifts from personal virtue to structural accountability, from lifestyle tweaks to large-scale political and economic reform. The science behind climate change seems simple: rising levels of carbon dioxide trap heat in the atmosphere, leading to higher temperatures, severe droughts, rising ocean levels and the extinction of many species and ecosystems. But public debate often reduces this compl