The year 2022 was one of grim and grisly returns: the return of major war – and nuclear brinkmanship – to Europe; the return of high inflation and the threat of stagflation globally; and the return of famine, extreme poverty, and other problems to the developing world, reversing decades of steady progress. With new findings about the sheer pace and scale of glacier melt in Antarctica and Greenland, the year also shed a harsh light on the damage – much of it irreversible –that climate change is wreaking on the planet. And with Chinese President Xi Jinping securing a precedent-breaking...