Published 3 years ago

Stuck in the Smoke as Billionaires Blast Off

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Climate change is now at the center of the German election debate. The Green Party was under attack as killjoys for carbon-pricing plans. Recent flooding in Henan, China, is being described as the heaviest in 1,000 years. And then there is the fire and smoke, summer after suffocating summer.

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Stuck in the Smoke as Billionaires Blast Off

Many people here think they are safe from climate change, the journalist from a German newspaper explained to me. They don’t see it as an immediate threat, like Covid-19. They see the Greens as scolds who want to take away their cheap holidays. “What do you have to say to them?”The question came via video call in late June, and I was, at that very moment, pickled in my non-air-conditioned home, gripped by a heatwave that would, before the week w…

3 years ago·New York, United States

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