1. What If We Stopped Pretending? The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it. by Jonathan Franzen (climate, The New Yorker)
2. Summer heat killed nearly 1,500 in France, officials say (climate, BBC)
3. Whale songs are getting deeper. by Rebecca Giggs (nature, The Atlantic)
4. Big Ag wants a cut of booming fake-meat market (new-food, Reuters)
5. How a Manhattan Scion Built a Rural Empire (Bloomberg)