Mark Gongloff

There’s this outdated comparison many politicians and even some climate-change advocates still use, which is to juxtapose climate action against economic growth, as if the two were opposing sides in a zero-sum game. In fact, like that old meme from The Office, they’re the same picture.

There’s an old climate joke that goes, “You may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.” If you’re in the market for new environmental humor — and really, who isn’t? — you can now update this to say, “You may not believe in climate change, but the stock market does.”

There can be only one Highlander, but Palantir’s Alex Karp shows there can be multiple highly paid, outspoken chief executive officers of richly valued tech companies with cult followings and unsettling stores of political power. That still doesn’t guarantee it’s a durable model for success.

A few years ago, there was a big frenzy about “quiet quitting,” the idea that kids these days might show up to their jobs but not work very hard at them. Bill Gates seems to be quiet-quitting the fight against climate change.

A few years ago, there was a big frenzy about “quiet quitting,” the idea that kids these days might show up to their jobs but not work very hard at them. Bill Gates seems to be quiet-quitting the fight against climate change.

Giving fossil-fuel companies billions of dollars in tax breaks to pump the oil and gas heating up the planet is a terrible idea, but I guess you could argue it might at least create US jobs — unless you’re talking about the billions we give those companies to pump oil and gas overseas. That is truly self-destructive, offering none of the nationalist upside but all of the global downside.

These are grim days in the fight against global heating, but every now and then you still stumble across a chance for an easy victory. Two new studies show how, merely with small tweaks to their meat-eating habits, Americans could erase what amounts to the annual greenhouse-gas emissions of a decent-sized industrialized country.

Being a meme stock is intrinsically humiliating. It usually means you’ve been judged and found wanting by a vast majority of trained investment professionals but were saved by some Redditors who decided to make number go up because rocket emoji LOL. It’s kind of like being the life of a party because you’re the only one willing to swallow a live goldfish.

Imagine being marched by force through a desert with barely anything to drink while your captor repeatedly cools himself by dumping gallons of water on his head, and maybe you’ll start to get a sense of what it’s like to live in Texas these days.

Fungus enthusiasts and fans of the video game/TV show The Last of Us will be familiar with cordyceps, a parasitic fungus that invades insects and forces them to do its bidding until they die. It’s a great deal for the cordyceps, which uses its hosts to expand its reach. For the insects, not so much.