United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that humanity is threatened by “global boiling.” Migrant laborers working outdoors in Kuwait are suffering kidney problems because of prolonged exposure to temperatures above 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Naval planners are contemplating the consequences of shrinking Arctic sea ice for warfighting in the far north.
A year of record heat, unusual weather, destructive storms and raging wildfireshas intensified the clash between the seemingly irresistible political momentum of the climate-change movement and the apparently unyielding economic and political realities of the world system.