After decades of inaction to slow climate warming that's causing sea level rise, sea levels are -- wait for it -- rising. "The bigger issue is the way it will affect human well-being, as we've said many times — food, water, energy, human health." Rich people damage the world in rich ways; poor people do their damage in poor ways. What is wiping out amphibians and bats qualify as plagues; the deaths of whales and dolphins, epidemics of multiple causes. What then would you call something that is wiping out everything besides itself?

Source: CNN May 22, 2019 22:35 UTC