I put the newsletter on pause last week due to travel commitments. To make up for it, here’s a bumper instalment.

This week, new research suggests widespread fears about social media and democracy are well founded; it really does fuel polarisation.

Meanwhile, the UK’s Met Office outlines a future in which we burst through the 1.5C global warming target, but claw average temperatures back underneath it by 2100. And the global population surpasses 8 billion.

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