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Is climate change the end of everything?
Booker Prize-winning story about a ‘crisis’. And a diplomat’s efforts on global warming
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The Big Story:
Chance or coincidence? On the very day this year’s UN climate talks began, a prestigious literary prize went to a novel that depicts social collapse after a “crisis” in which everything has changed, including the climate.
- The £50,000–Booker Prize was awarded on Monday night (Nov 9) to The End of Everything by M John Harrison.
- COP31 began Monday morning in the Turkish coastal resort of Antalya, sans major world leaders but with nearly 200 nations in attendance.
This Week’s Books:
- A terrifying vision of the near future is both familiar and strange.
- Veteran climate negotiator on why diplomacy matters.
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