'Asian countries feel their time has come': why the West must adapt

Frankopan says it's hard for historians to bring people along with them when US Congress members can deny climate change even exists. Education has not kept up. "Some of the papers have been on the Oxford syllabus for 40 years, adapting to what young people need to know about needs a bit of a cardiac arrest." Won't humanity just find a way through, I ask hopefully? "It's a difficult question for biologists to answer, not just historians. No human ancestor has gone through what we are going through here. So adaptability and speed of change is a real problem," he…