Humanity's alignment problemListen to this articleIt's lunchtime on top of the world again. The cover is clever and controversial, with the comedian Jimmy Kimmel describing it as the "eight dorks of the apocalypse". This would be a failure not of intelligence, but of another element in Time's cover-image metaphor: alignment. In architecture, alignment refers to whether a structure's form, function, and values point in the same direction. Likewise, the institutions of climate governance are aligned to a slower, more forgiving world than the one Mr Rockström has described.

Source: Bangkok Post January 06, 2026 00:25 UTC