The Role of Journalism in an Honest Story Like This

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"I'm not a political activist. I have a political point of view," he says. "It's very just like, okay, here's the story that I see. Here's the truth." He doesn't want people to be despairing about climate change but also don't think it's his job to provide solutions per se.

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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