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"One plague, when big enough, occludes others, and the coronavirus pandemic has, for six months now, almost fully eclipsed the very real, very large, and very pressing threat of climate

Next month, @timdugganbooks will publish my big climate book, The Uninhabitable Earth, in which I try to take a very broad, and very long, view of the state of the

“We’ve known for months what it takes to bring Covid-19 under control. You need a period of severe lockdown to reduce the disease’s prevalence,” ⁦@paulkrugman⁩ writes. In fact, the solution

“A whole generation of Democratic mayors have seen their reputations defined by their inability to manage the aftermath of police killings,” my brother ⁦@benwallacewells⁩ wrote last week, just as things

"We are now almost six months into this pandemic, which began in November in Wuhan, with 50,000 Americans dead and 200,000 more around the world. And yet we still don't

Something I think is deeply underappreciated right now is that, while social distancing has been tremendously effective, that efficacy is going to expire in about two weeks, when anyone infected

How bad will climate change get? Sometimes things change so quickly you hardly notice, and over the last year, amidst climate horrors and climate suffering, the good news has come

"COVID-19 is not a climate-change pandemic. But if the disease and our inability to respond to it terrifies you, it should, not just as a 'fire drill' for climate change