he end of the world is nigh, again. And as usual, it’s being greeted largely with a shrug. Perhaps you felt a prick of unease as you scrolled the headlines, or half listened to some radio debate about the fact that sometime in the next four years the planet is likely to breach the 1.5C rise that we have long been told is the tipping point to avoid. (Although this time the breach should be only temporary, the World Meteorological Organization report stresses that it still takes us into uncharted waters,
