Actually, it has never left; the corona virus put it aside for a while.
The thing is, both have to be tackled with the same urgency. They are both a threat to human survival, and both have the potential of destroying economies.
The latest on the topic of climate change is that we're already in a crisis that was thought to take decades to happen - namely, part of the world is now on the brink of intolerable heat and humidity.
In my country, the summers are hot; the temperatures usually reach an average of 30-35 degrees Celsius. This week they got to over 40. There's talk of 50 degrees Celsius in many parts of the world during the upcoming months. It's an anomaly when it occurs in a populated area (in the desert, it's probably common). That's scary, very scary!
In the last few years, heat waves of this sort were spotted in India, Irak, Australia, South Arabia.
Intolerable heat might bring about , among other things, increased migration from hot places to cooler ones, and thus a change in world geography and demography.
Baghdad - Irak.
I often think about islands. There's a constant threat hanging over them - their getting 'swallowed' by waters through the melting ice in Antarctica, and wonder if it's too late, if there's nothing to be done to prevent this upcoming disaster.