Imagine your country has just been hammered by a sudden extreme climate event, say a violent storm or an unrelenting, record-shattering downpour. The systems you rely on for transportation, energy, food, and water lie in rubble. Homes, businesses, schools, and hospitals are flattened or drowned.

First Nations emergency responders are tracking multiple factors that threaten to contribute to another record fire season

At the root of the climate crisis lies an economy dependent on profits from unfettered growth, mostly through resource extraction, experts say. But, as world leaders wrap up at COP28 in Dubai, discussing how to fast-track the global push towards clean energy, few seem to be talking about the elephant in the room: endless GDP growth.

In an era of record-breaking temperatures, devastating fires, floods, storms, and deadly droughts – all causing millions of deaths – the climate crisis clearly demands the strongest possible, justice-based, and urgent response from nation-states.