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The region is beset by catastrophe after catastrophe.
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In the West, crisis is becoming routine. Extreme heat, out-of-control wildfires, droughts, floods—climate catastrophes are just part of the weather now. This is what climate change looks like, and it is here. “Even describing climate-related events as unprecedented or unpredictable becomes less meaningful,” our California-based staff writer Ronald Brownstein points out. “Is an event that has never happened before really ‘unpredictable’ if such events are now happening virtually every year?” |
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The news in three sentences:
(1) Dozens of people were killed, including at least 12 U.S. service members, after an attack on Kabul’s airport. (2) COVID-19 hospitalizations hit 100,000 in America for the first time since January. (3) The 2020 Paralympic Games continue, and China leads the medal count.
Tonight’s Atlantic-approved activity:
I’m still a magpie. If it glitters, / I want it, no matter / the cost … Read W. J. Herbert’s poem “Squander.”
A break from the news:
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