It’s a change from the pandemic with the Glasgow summit taking up most of the media's time and space, it is almost at saturation point already on the second day.
So much talk, just what everyone complains about.
There is hope, but will there be much action?
The trouble is that climate change is a confusing, complex subject, and the outcome of the attempt to get countries to act together depends on their overriding self interest.
The absence from Glasgow of Russia and China, giant polluters, is serious.
The most worrying contribution to the debate with all its last minute warnings are the pleas of the small countries that are already seeing the danger of extinction yet are not receiving the promised aid from the rich nations.
Rivalling the world leaders in the effort to get action is the phenomenal teenager Greta Thunberg.
I find it astonishing that such a young person, however committed, intelligent and eloquent, has achieved such a status, driven by the media.
Solving the climate crisis is vital for new generations and she epitomises the determination needed but it all seems a little too facile, with the media making her as important as the world leaders.
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