To a greater degree: widespread heatwaves

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4.3 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Vast stretches of the temperate world are baking or burning, and as climate change marches on widespread heatwaves will only grow more intense and more common. After a half-century of insurgency, some rebels of Colombia’s disbanded FARC group needed a new calling: they have become tour guides. And a look at where Ukraine can store its considerable grain harvest. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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1:10.3	shaping your world.
1:12.8	After half a century of armed insurgency, members of Colombia's rebel group, the FARC, laid down their arms in 2016.
1:20.9	Many suddenly had to think of what to do next. For some, the answer was to get involved with the tourist industry.
1:29.0	And in Ukraine, the grain stalls mainly on the train,
1:32.8	and road and river routes out of the country.
1:35.5	We discuss how farmers in one of the world's biggest grain exporters
1:39.0	are coping with export difficulties because of Russia's invasion.
1:55.0	Music difficulties because of Russia's invasion. But first...
1:59.0	Here in Britain, a good summer used to mean seeing more than a few fleeting glimpses of the sun,
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