Trove raises new finance as it targets Europe and luxury re-commerce

The investment increases the firm’s valuation to between $200 million and $300 million and the company said it will use the new cash to “significantly expand its roster of brand partners, strengthen its technology and logistics infrastructure, enter the luxury vertical, and service a new customer audience in Europe”.Trove is a branded re-commerce market leader and powers circular shopping f…

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Why We Keep Ignoring Even the Most Dire Climate Change Warnings

You’d think the end of the world would be enough to get us scared. Humans have always been an exceedingly risk-averse species—which is how we came to survive as a species at all. If there are lions on one part of the savannah, we go to another. If crocodiles keep coming out of the river, we fish somewhere else. So when it comes to the loss of the entire planet, well, we ought to tak…

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