Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.

Anger and bigotry are profitable models if you rewire people’s brains to be driven by fear.

Modern authoritarian regimes often offer not a unified propaganda line but rather contradictory versions of reality... The cumulative effect is to leave citizens with no clear idea of what is actually happening.