LETTER FROM THE EDITORS.

For a generation that came of age when Climate Change represented an established, undisputed fact, a sense of optimism pervaded thinking about the earth's future. Textbooks taught us that the world had already woken up to what was happening. All that remained, we were led to believe, was finding a workable solution. This was a technocratic problem, and there was little doubt human ingenuity would prevail.

In recent years that optimism has crumbled. Climate skepticism has surged across the globe. Armed with a new pseudo-science, a wave of resurgent demagogues paints climate change with the brush of hyperbole and partisanship. Even those political leaders sympathetic to climate change have made environmental goals secondary to economic output. The rise of a new generation of climate activists offers hope. But it also reflects how dire today's state of affairs is. As political leaders across the globe dither, the world stumbles towards toward crisis, already seen in increasingly frequent and more intense storms, droughts, wildfires, and floods.

This sense of urgency drove the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Affairs to dedicate its latest issue, Volume 73, No. 1, to climate change--with one caveat. We have shed the old name. Climate Change portrays the path we are on in neutral terms. This is...

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