5 ways we’re making progress on climate change

Photo credit: Michelle Ailport / BLM Arizona via Flickr. Public domain. Article by Bryan Walsh. Vox – April 26, 2025.

Any time I try to convince skeptical people that the world isn’t as bad as they think it is — which I do quite a lot, given that I write a newsletter called Good News — they usually come back with a two-word rejoinder: “climate change.” It’s a tough one to rebut. Climate change is very real, and its toll is worsening by the year. 2024 was the hottest year on record, and the first year where the average global temperature was 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than it was in the pre-industrial era — a red line set by policymakers as part of the Paris agreement. […]

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