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Africa Climate Summit: Ruto triumphs in quest to reinvent continent

President William Ruto leads other African leaders in announcing declarations adopted during the Africa Climate Summit. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Climate optimism is a vanishingly rare state of mind. The reasons for that are obvious for any discerning news consumer or avid reader. Climate scientists are constantly cautioning us that the fate of the world hangs by a thread due to man-made global warming.

News headlines, meanwhile, warn of a "climate breakdown" and an "era of global boiling". And the title of the latest best-seller on the future of our rapidly warming planet? "The Heat Will Kill You First". Yikes! As necessary as it may be to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis, the tendency towards self-flagellation isn't always helpful.

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