The Climate Emergency. A frightening article from The New York Times
This article was published in the New York Times on September 9th . It needs no further comment. By Matthew Bossons Mr. Bossons is managing editor of Radii, a Shanghai-based online publication focused on Chinese youth culture. SHANGHAI — Last month, I traveled with my wife and 5-year-old daughter from our home here to southwestern China for a family camping trip. Our destination was a region of Sichuan Province where clear rivers tumble down from the Himalayas through steep valleys before watering fertile lowlands that help feed a country with the world’s largest population. My daughter, Evelyn, learned to swim only just last year, and we looked forward to plunging into cool, scenic mountain swimming holes. Instead, we ran a gantlet of climate change effects caused by China’s historic heat wave this summer — ravaged landscapes, paralyzed cities and populations pushed to extremes. It had been a year of global climate alarm even before China began heating up in July. Millions of people