New York Times: "There is a huge mismatch between the magnitude of the challenge and the response we heard here today," Graca Machel, Nelson Mandela's widow, told a summit to discuss climate change in New York this year. "The scale is much more than we have achieved." This mismatch, which grows ever more disproportionate year after year, raises questions both about our future and about our character.
What explains our collective failure on climate change? Why is it that instead of dealing with the problem, all...