Outbreaks of insect pests and insect invasions are on the rise on the African continent.

It’s often seen as the silver lining set against the dark clouds of climate change: As precipitation patterns change and cold parts of the planet warm up, the quantity of potential farmland could grow immensely.

Over a century ago, under the iron-and-glass dome of the Grand Palais in Paris, inventors unveiled the first diesel engine, motion picture and escalator

This quotation is from the end of Stephen M. Gardiner’s book A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change. The book argues that climate change is already an ethical failure, as we have not yet succeeded in putting measures in place to deal with climate change.

Climate change seems to be our biggest long term problem, coming closer every day. Our newspapers and social media are full of it. Greta Thunberg talks about nothing else and leaders lash out at her saying she is naive. ‘It’s not so simple,’ they say.

To have a chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, society needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050—meaning that if we can’t transition to an emissions-free economy by that time, we’ll need to find ways to remove everything we’re still pumping into the atmosphere.