In a significant first for the country and therefore the world, China has announced a climate target to reduce emissions (previous targets have only pledged a date for peak emissions). China tends to be a conservative target-setter and then beat them, so I would hope that will actually do better than its goal of a 7-10% decline by 2035.

An invitation to something “subversive and transformational — which is trying to end culture wars rather than win them.” Alex Evans writes about what churche...