While the health of Donald Trump is dominating the Covid-19 news cycle, it seems some people have noticed a far more critical longer-term problem: we’ve created such an inhospitable environment that, once the virus ceases to be a threat, another crisis looms.

First, we’ve known for a while that the Amazon is in trouble. Not the purveyor of unnecessary cardboard boxes of clothes and gadgets, obviously, but the original Amazon – the 5.5-million square kilometre rainforest spanning nine South American countries...

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