This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.
It could be the greatest crime in history and that, believe me, is saying a lot. I’m talking, of course, about the broiling of a planet where heat records are being set globally on an almost daily basis in what’s likely to be the hottest year in possibly — yes! — a million years (long before, that is, human beings even existed).
And the biggest criminals? The ultimate