As the world approaches a tipping point in the climate change crisis, many people finally appear to be waking up to the need for radical change, although the Trump administration is still pushing in the opposite direction.
Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, urged world leaders to come to New York with action plans, not fancy speeches, to deal with climate change. Before the U.N. Climate Action Summit, which began Monday, students around the world went on strike and scientists gathered to warn that climate change is hitting harder and sooner than they had originally predicted.