… great swaths of populations, in all kinds of terrible ways. Significant numbers of millennials told pollsters they have no friends (22 percent) or often feel lonely (30 percent), higher figures than of any other generation. Monsoons tragically uprooted more than a million people in India and Pakistan, devastating towns and villages and killing hundreds. And while Great Britain’s annual tally suggests that butterflies have turned out in strong numbers this summer—more painted ladies and red admirals than you can shake a net at, if you’re so inclined—the long-term climate picture, lepidoptera-wise, is much darker.

There’s more: Thousands of protesters occupied…