Clearly, the climate crisis is upon us


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Paul Hockenos is the author of “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall and the Birth of the New Berlin.” The opinions in this article belong solely to the author.


(CNN)This summer’s sizzling temperatures, savage droughts, raging wildfires, floods and acute water shortages — from Japan to the Arctic Circle, California to Greece — are surely evidence beyond any reasonable doubt that the climate crisis is upon us now.


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