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The Fyre Festival settlement reveals the true cost of schadenfreude — $7,220 a pop

The Verge

The organizers of Fyre Festival — think: The Hunger Games, but for influencers — have agreed to a settlement with 277 attendees for $7,220 apiece, The New York Times reports. He was also ordered to pay $5 million to two people who paid $13,000 each for VIP packages (did the sandwiches come with extra cheese slices?).

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

Air-conditioning will be a literal life-saver, and the number of people with air-conditioning will increase dramatically. In India, the most populated country in the world, some 600 million people will feel unprecedented heat outside this niche. For context, in the early 2000s New York averaged less than one heat wave annually.

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