*Deadly heatwaves, floods and rising hunger far greater threat to world than coronavirus, scientists say.*

*Ecosystems the size of Amazon 'can collapse within decades'.*

Italy's reaction to Covid-19 and its political consequences.

It appears that the right-wing extremist Liga party, in power in Lombardia, leaked the Lombardia quarantine plan so as to provoke chaos which it could then blame it on the government.

Praise for Italy's well-organized campaign to block spread of the virus, treat those who are sick (nearly all patients can survive with good treatment), and prevent the disastrous economic consequences that the epidemic is likely to have.

*There's no 'deadline' to save the world. Everything we do now has to pass the climate test.*

Growing trees does little lasting good against global heating if the wood is used in ways that will quickly decay and release the carbon again.

Bolsonaro's proposed bridge across the Amazon river would make it easier for gangsters to cut down the trees in the region. Bolsonaro would cheer them on as they push the forest towards the tipping point where it would disappear.