Think of the parable of a frog in boiling water. That’s us dithering as the ‘unprecedented‘ weather becomes more extreme | Helen Pilcher

<p>The complacency is staggering: just another hot summer, a flooded street, a crop failure. We are accepting this extraordinary deterioration as normal</p><p>Recently, I overheard a conversation in a cafe where someone described their toast as “awesome”. I felt myself bristle. Not