The Progress of Attribution Science

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I think that there's, I've always felt that there's a lot of opportunity here. There's a long section in the new book about the possibilities for the bad guys to be held accountable through the combination of science and the legal system. And once you get to these questions of attribution, it really changes the whole game politically, legally, economically in a big, big way.

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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