I grew up during the Cold War. Nuclear Armageddon was the greatest fear of all of us and yet, almost miraculously, we avoided it.

But now the climate catastrophe seems certain, and it will kill a million species and render large parts of the planet uninhabitable.

I feel like it was out of the frying pan, into the fire, as Cervantes said. Perhaps we are simply destined to destroy ourselves and our planet due to our very nature. This is a horrifying thought, but...