A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

Among poorer countries, where roughly four out of five of the world’s inhabitants live, 89% of the public wanted stronger climate action. In richer, industrialized countries, roughly two out of three people wanted stronger action. But at least for now, this global climate majority is a silent majority. If most of the climate majority have no idea they are the majority, do they also not realize that defusing the climate crisis is by no means impossible? The first step to answering such questions is to give the silent climate majority a voice.