But with the emergence of Brexit, European populists and United States president Donald Trump (pic) by 2016, the game became uglier, as political and social views became polarised as wealth and social inequalities widened.
IMAGINE a beautiful beach where families are gathered on a clear day with blue skies. Different families are building sandcastles, whilst some are playing on the beach. No one is watching that a tsunami of different waves is approaching the shore.
This is the vivid story told by former UNFCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) executive secretary Christiana Figueres. The first wave is the pandemic, followed by economic recession, then financial crisis, and finally the big wave of climate warming.
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