Wen Stephenson was invited to comment on the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Synthesis Report for The Nation’s new issue. (The headline on the web version is rather different than the one in the print edition.) It begins this way:
On March 20, the final installment of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) landed with all the force of a pebble hurled into the sea. Another round of dutifully—and accurately—alarming coverage appeared on the world’s news pages and in social media feeds, but it was barely acknowledged by the guardians of our political and cultural status quo and their corporate paymasters. …
