CRISES test a nation’s resilience but also provide opportunities to rise and move forward. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday delivered an impassioned speech at the United Nations about the climate injustice countries like Pakistan are facing. Much of what he said was an adequate articulation of the many challenges being faced by us today due to the vicissitudes of weather deeply and perhaps irrevocably altered by global warming. He spoke of the searing, unprecedented heatwaves this year and the flood of “biblical proportions” which followed — a disaster the likes of which we have never seen. “Why are my people paying the price of such high global warming through no fault of their own?” he asked the world.