When will we learn to accept the climate change truth?

Since the beginning of time, the Earth has provided for us in every which way possible and opened up channels through which we have not only solved our immediate problems but also planned a better future for ourselves. From the discovery of coal and the invention of the steam engine to the development of the internet, nature has played the prime role. Or to travel back, the medicines and healing processes we use in the postmodern world all have their origins in nature.

They were always there. We just needed to discover them. It took Darwin five years on the HMS Beagle and subsequent two decades of research to arrive at the theory of evolution, which was met both with interest and shock. So was Einstein's theory of relativity - but without it, we would not have the internet and GPS.

But Einstein didn't develop his theory from thin air. He had a galaxy of physicists as path-breakers - from Max Planck to Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr. Especially Planck, whose Planck constant helped him develop his photoelectric effect theory, for which he got the Nobel Prize for Physics.