Empathy for the People in Texas

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I don't feel like it's my job to feel empathy. I am incredibly encouraged by the changes that we've seen in the last decade. The whole rationale of clean energy is more expensive, is completely false. And also culturally, you know, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, when I started writing about climate change,. It would be like, I was writing about the sex life of porcupines or something.

Jeff Goodell is a climate change writer for Rolling Stone and the author of seven books. His new book is The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.

“I would not have said this even five years ago, but I have really come to see this now as a crime story. This is a kind of looting of the atmosphere of the earth, siphoning off resources and grossly profiting off of that at the expense of many other people—billions of people—on this planet. And I understand that’s a big thing to say, but I think it’s just pretty obviously true. … I don’t mean that personally that each one of them personally is a criminal. We are all complicit in this.”

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