As panic about climate change sets in, I’m thinking about escape – to Canada | Emma Brockes

The summer of heatwaves and forest fires leaves my friends feeling helpless and a little hysterical. And who can blame us?The New York Times has devoted an entire edition of its magazine, some 30,000 words, to a terrifying piece about climate change. With 2C warming – an unlikely best-case scenario at this point, scientists were quoted as saying – the planet faces “long-term disaster”. With 3C warming, we are looking at “the loss of most coastal cities”. The possibility that the Earth might warm by 5C, wrote the author, Nathaniel Rich, had prompted some of the world’s leading scientists to warn of the end of human civilisation. Related: Huge rise of people at risk from wildfires as western US population grows Continue reading...