Until honesty is valued as much as external success, we will raise generations who are informed but not awakened. Climate denial, then, is not just a policy issue. It is a crisis of attention, of sincerity, of willingness to respond. And the crisis will not wait for us to agree. It does not negotiate. It proceeds, hour by hour, indifferent to our narratives. The only question that remains is: when the truth knocks, will we answer, or pretend not to hear?
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Originally published in The Sunday Guardian on 14 sep '25.
Denial blinds societies to climate’s mounting toll, risking collapse across generations.
In conversations about the planet’s future, one question keeps surfacing—sometimes in honest uncertainty, sometimes as provocation: Is climate change a hoax? The question lingers in public debate, even as the planet grows warmer and weather patterns grow more erratic. Some continue to raise such doubts, claiming the crisis is exaggerated or imagined.
Their disbelief cannot simply be brushed aside. For if the threat is real, and all evidence suggests it is, then the deeper issue is psychological: Can the proof still reach a mind that has resolved not to see?
