The denial syndrome: Faced with monumental change, we all tend to convince ourselves that our lives will continue unscathed. In the first of our new series, with picks from the New Internationalist archive, we go back to 1990 when Anuradha Vittachi explained why, in the case of climate change, denial--that basic human trait--could bring about our downfall

Back in 1990climatechange-or global warming as we called it then --barely got a mention in much of the media. Yet the warnings about its impact were already there. The Intergovernmental [...]