Dark days: South Africa’s declining mining sector requires policy reform and fixing dysfunctional infrastructure and logistics, among other urgent responses. Photo: Michele Spatari/Getty Images
A July TED talk by Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, had already reached 648 293 views at the time of writing. It is not a good-news talk.
Essentially, the scientific assessment is that the average ocean temperature is rising dangerously and…
