THE FUSE

We are heading into a potentially catastrophic El Niño weather cycle, Gauteng’s air quality currently meets World Health Organization levels for a public health crisis, and South Africa continues to face massive unemployment and almost no economic growth. The decades-long predictions and explanations by climate scientists have proved impressively accurate: we know that the only way to avoid more frequent and more disruptive extreme weather events is to radically reduce the emissions caused by burning fossil fuels.