Humans owe a huge debt and climate change is here to collect its dues

The carcass of a cow shows the adverse effects of climate change in Garissa. [Mercy Kahenda, Standard]

That the ongoing drought has triggered an unprecedented hunger crisis affecting more than 5.4 million Kenyans and more than 22 million people in the horn of Africa is not news.

That the drought is a result of insufficiently addressing global-warming human activity despite it being 27 years since the first Conference of Parties (COPs) in 1995 in Berlin is equally not news.