How to Write a Book About Sea Level Rise

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"I'm really interested in narratives. I'm interested in translating, you know, kind of science into language that people can understand," she says. "In some ways, it's almost like travel writing or something ... You go to this weird island and you want to come back and tell people what you've seen."

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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