Electrifying time
It’s salutary to remember that as 2020 began, our major preoccupation was the horrifying extent of Australia’s seasonal bush fires and the strange apocalyptic red they turned our skies. New Zealanders stood and stared skywards, witnesses to climate change’s acceleration.
The world has had many such harrowing reminders this year: record temperatures, ice-cap shrinkage, lethal floods and more unprecedented wildfires and drought.
Yet When Covid-19 rapidly became the more pressing emergency, climate change
