When the Climate Crisis Becomes Unignorable

September 16, 2021

Robinson Meyer reflects on how this summer’s extreme weather – Hurricane Ida, record-breaking heatwaves wildfires in California and the Mediterranean, torrential rain in China – has forced a continual climate awareness.

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