Global Apathy Toward the Fires in Australia Is a Scary Portent for the Future

A months-long climate disaster in a wealthy, white country is tailor-made to dominate news coverage. It hasn’t.

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By David Wallace-Wells

Right now, on the outskirts of a hyper modern first world megapolis, at the end of a year in which

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