It’s easy to be fatalistic about the climate, but hope is on the horizon
Oct 22, 2021
3 minutes
Bill McKibben
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Guardan design
So many things have broken the wrong way since the Paris climate accords were agreed in mid-December of 2015. Within eight weeks. Donald Trump had won his first presidential primary, an insane comet streaking across the sky, trailed by outliers like Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. The world has endured distractions such as Brexit, and the paraly sing emergency of the coronavirus pandemic.
And yet here we are, staggering and stumbling towards the real follow-up to Paris, starting 31 October in Glasgow. The international order, such as it is, is held
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