Searching for hope in hell
Henry Freedland writes: As climate change extremified wildfires raging through the American West and my native California, and as geoscientists realized the world’s oceans were retaining 60 percent more heat each year than previously thought, I flashed to Hesiod’s view of Tartarus: The fertile earth Being burned, roared out, the voiceless forest cried And crackled with the fire; the whole earth boiled And ocean’s streams, and the unfruitful sea. As lies intensified and accrued, as doublespeak and toxic truthlessness were…