WILDFIRES ARE RAGING – AND THE WORLD HAS JUNKED 45 CLIMATE PLEDGES. DISASTER LOOMS, AND LITTLE WONDER | BILL MCGUIRE

Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out against fossil fuels. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act France and Spain race to contain huge wildfires before fresh heatwave begins Such is the astonishing scale of the wildfires burning at the gates of Bordeaux and…

Climate crisis | The Guardian reports that five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out against fossil fuels.

The report adds: Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act France and Spain race to contain huge wildfires before fresh heatwave begins Such is the astonishing scale of the wildfires burning at the gates of Bordeaux and…

But like the proverbial frog in a pot of slowly heating water, we have become inured; not only to the ever more devastating impacts of climate breakdown, but increasingly to the actions needed to bring global heating…

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