Another stolen summer day

Emily Atkin · 17 Jul 2026

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Fossil fuel polluters and their allies aim not to win the climate debate but to prolong it indefinitely, preventing public consensus for action.

Their wordsPolluters and their cronies are not trying to win the climate argument, merely to prolong it in perpetuity so there's never enough public consensus for action.
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Forest management alone cannot offset the hotter, drier conditions that climate change has brought to wildfires.

Their wordsIt is not enough to manage away the hotter, drier conditions that have turned fires into continent-spanning hellscape smoke events.

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