Humans have changed. Earth has not and can still surprise us
The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. And it is far from being the only one or the scariest one in this line-up.
Non-comms
Defy the panic, keep it safe and get back to normal soon
One cannot defy a virus, but one can and must defy the panic and that standstill that is dragging us into a recession that will prove a much traumatic experience for a huge part of the society, eventually everyone. I hope that a week of good Easter weather will show that the spike in the spread of the virus has nothing to do with people willing to get back to normal.
EU in my life. Thinking big
I am a European, and proud of it. Now, 69 years after the first European treaty was signed amid the smouldering ruins after World War 2, the EU is still a novel and unique form of governance. No group of countries have ever agreed on a union as real and attractive as the EU. I hope this five to seven-minute read gives an idea of how much the EU really means to someone like me.
We’re in for warming. Zero-carbon helpless against climate change inertia
Climate change is here to stay, a new Mckinsey report says. At least for as long as the geophysical machinery of our home planet will throw back at us everything we have been burying in it for very, very long.