This week, the Phrygian cap, the symbol of the French republic but wearing sneakers as a nod to the present, has been unveiled as the mascot for the 2024 Paris Olympics. NASA successfully launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon. A baby elephant interrupted a Kenyan local reporter during a piece to camera. “Help, help, our patient is dying, the earth is dying” shouted a medic as she was performing CPR on a globe at a protest during the COP27 climate conference in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh. Water was gushing from the Wyangala Dam in New South Wales, Australia, after t…