What we learned this week

“‘Yeah, but China’ is just an excuse. An excuse fuelled by a lethal combination of historic racism and current selfishness” says George Monbiot in a Twitter thread on this common riposte to anything climate related.

“Truth is what’s missing, not hope” says Nuala Gathercole Lam in the Independent, arguing that Extinction Rebellion does not need to be popular to be effective.

Also in the Independent: their new travel editor, Helen Coffey, introduced a new editorial policy to prioritise susta...