“Those who are given a benefit and then have it removed are likely to be less happy than those who never know of its existence” Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow Increasingly I come across people saying the human population is unsustainable. It’s hardly a new concern – Thomas Malthus, for instance, was worried about…

The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, released in Berlin at the end of February, has understandably been overshadowed by the events in Ukraine. Yet climate change and the current war have some things in common. Both threaten international security. Both are existential threats to life on earth. And both are terrifying examples of the harm that…