New Delhi, July 9 -- There's no better representation of the fact that we're living in an upside-down world than the fact that it's children and young adults who are the realists about climate change, while the adults engage in magical thinking. It's not that children asked for this burden. But the constant vacillation, verging on the total abnegation of responsibility, among adults means that those between the ages of 0-20 are being left a world that's turning increasingly unliveable. The adults are effectively saying that yes, it is a right old mess, but we are not going to fix it, you will.

As the world blows past deadline after deadline to stop burning fossil fuels, we are in effect leaving behind a very different world from the one ...