The chokepoint we will not watch

This week the oceans were confirmed at their highest recorded heat. Israel closed its entire Mediterranean coastline after an oil spill blackened 160km of shore — officials called it among the country's worst-ever ecological disasters. Emperor penguins are projected to halve by the 2080s; gray whales are wandering, starving, into San Francisco Bay; a sweeping study concluded humanity may already be living beyond what the planet can sustain. Each item surfaced in a science feed and sank without a ...