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THE BIG STORY

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CLIMATE JUSTICE

15 Habitable Earth

There’s still time to stop irrevocable damage to the ecosystem on which human life depends. But not much. Hazel Healy explores what it would take.

22 How do we get to zero-carbon emissions?

A graphic blueprint that models radical CO2 reductions to 2050. By Information is Beautiful.

24 ‘Real education happens outside the

classroom’ Samoan climate activist Brianna Fruean in conversation with Anna Taylor from the UK school strikes movement.

27 World in motion

Danny Chivers profiles movements fighting to keep fossil fuels in the ground, from Argentina to Japan.

30 Footsteps disappear

Personal carbon-cutting makes a difference – as long as you talk about it, says Mike Berners Lee.

32 First-class lifeboats

Tom Whyman introduces the super-rich ‘preppers’ who think they can escape the climate apocalypse.

33 Life after coal

Sam Adler Bell explores what a just transition might look like for fossil fuel workers, based on the experiences of US coalminers in Appalachia.

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CURRENTS

Stories making the news   8 The forgotten US war in Somalia

Plus: Borderlines   9 Introducing: Nayib Bukele   9 Myanmar’s betel nut addiction

Plus: Seriously? 10 Scottish sex workers organize 10 Diverse dolls in Brazil

Plus: Sign of the Times 10 Europe legitimizing forest theft in Vietnam 12 Egypt’s Arab winter

Plus: Open Window 13 Haitians ask: where’s the money?

Plus: Reasons to be Cheerful

REGULARS

6 Letters

Plus: Why I…

7 Letter from Dhaka

What is required to be an authentic person? Parsa Sanjana Sajid ponders the answer from the bright lights of a photo studio.

38 Country Profile: Eritrea

40 Cartoon History

The story of Digna Ochoa, the Mexican human rights lawyer who was killed in 2001, as told by ILYA .

44 The Debate

This issue’s dilemma asks whether or not it’s time to quit social media. Michael Harris and Charlotte Lydia Riley share their opposing views.

52 The Interview

Behrouz Boochani talks to Husna Rizvi about life on Manus Island, writing a book via WhatsApp and Australia’s ‘new kind of fascism’.

55 Southern Exposure

Afghan photographer Rahmat Alizadah captures a striking pose – two athletes setting aside stigma through kung fu.

72 Hall of Infamy

Thailand’s Chakri Dynasty – the beloved aristocrats complicit in military rule – is put under the spotlight.

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