I can start by using an analogy from quantum physics. Everybody has heard of Schrödinger's cat. I will tell you in one sentence how it works: Everything is connected.
The issue with climate change is that it is fundamentally about the breakdown of the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Now, I have a couple of points about that, which are really important.
The first is that interconnections can occur in unforeseen ways. You can speak to volcanologists, say, about the effect of the melting of the ice caps, the weight of the earth's crust and what this means in terms of climate change and food security. You're well aware that in the 1980s the Soviet Union regularly had poor harvests. Lots of the time, people in the world economy didn't notice. There's essentially what economists like to call the “omnicrisis”. It's that you have multiple crises interconnected in subtle ways. There's a huge body of literature on this.
Now, the bad news is that the human mind is wired in such a way that it deals quite well with immediate, visible challenges. The human mind is not very good at dealing with large, complex and interconnected existential challenges. However, realizing that there is this very strong interconnectedness of events means that we have to be a lot more aware of what is happening in different parts of the world and try to explore for ourselves how they are connected.