What to read to understand climate change

What to read to understand climate change
Temperatures on Earth continue to rise as scientists warn of a looming catastrophe. (Image: Depositphotos)
The Economist
Climate change touches everything. It is reshaping weather systems and coastlines, altering where crops can be grown, which diseases thrive, and how armies fight. Rising temperatures affect geopolitics, migration, ecosystems and the economy. It will remake societies and the world. This month, delegates from around the world have flocked to Egypt for COP27, the latest edition of the annual United Nations climate confab. The science, economics and politics of climate change are so legion, complicated and interconnected that they can be hard...

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