The competitive examination system in India is one of the largest and most rigorous in the world. Millions of students sit for entrance and recruitment tests that determine admission to universities, medical schools, engineering institutes, law schools, and government positions every year.

Climate action fails not due to a lack of capacity of the people; it fails because negotiations happen far away from those who need to be heard and included. And if the agency fails to return to the caretakers, the policy papers will be as good as blank.

Earth has a long record of outlasting catastrophe. The question worth asking is whether that record extends to what we are doing right now, and more precisely, how fast we are doing it.