As climate change reshapes the world, science can explain the threat — but only politics can turn that knowledge into practical solutions. It turns out dragons do exist, without the fairy tales. Theirs confronts the future — yes, the future with fire-breathing dragons that do not come from fairy tales. The problem, in other words, is a shared one: life in the human-made age of heat waves and dragons. And yet, immersed in our fairy tales without dragons, we have stopped coming up with solutions.