What we learned this week

“The age of extinction is here” writes Umair Haque, “some of us just don’t know it yet” – a striking essay on the heat waves in South Asia.

On the same incident, World Weather Attribution reckon that climate change made that heatwave 30 times more likely. (See Friedericke Otto’s book Angry Weather for a great explanation of weather attribution studies and how they work.)

This article in Nature Food looks at what degrowth thinking can contribute to a sustainable food system. It feels like ...