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Climate Storytellers

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Climate One

Social Sciences, Earth Sciences, Science, News Commentary, News

4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Strategic Adviser for National Geographic, Andrew Revkin, has been writing about climate change since the 1980s, including 21 years for The New York Times. So what are some things he’s learned in those three decades? How has he learned to best tell the story? As New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert knows all too well, covering climate change is journey that can be a challenge. “On some level it’s the worst story ever. It’s sort of everything and nothing and so finding the narrative is very, very difficult,” says Kolbert. This is a conversation with those telling the story of our climate. Guests: Andrew Revkin Strategic Adviser for Environmental and Science Journalism, National Geographic Society Elizabeth Kolbert Journalist, The New Yorker David Roberts Staff Writer, Vox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Climate 1, changing the conversation about energy, economy, and the environment.

0:34.4

There's no way you can take away the reality that we are right now shaping the climate for 100,000 years to come. Science and environmental environment. There's no way you can take away the reality that we are right now shaping the

0:38.3

climate for 100,000 years to come. Science and environmental reporter Andrew Revkin has been writing

0:43.2

about climate change since the 1980s, including 21 years with the New York Times. So what are some

0:48.5

things he's learned in those three-plus decades? Science and history give you a very powerful sense

0:53.6

that many aspects of what's playing out right now seem to be an implicit part of the human journey.

0:58.0

But as New Yorker writer Elizabeth Colbert knows, writing about climate's place in that journey can be a challenge.

1:04.0

It is ubiquitous, but very hard to pin down. It's being caused by everyone and everything. It's sort of everything and nothing.

1:14.0

And so finding the narrative is very, very difficult.

1:20.9

Conversations with climate storytellers. Up next on Climate One.

1:32.4

I'm Devon Strolovich. For writers and reporters who cover the climate change beat, getting to the story can be a challenge. Climate change is,

1:38.5

on some level it's the worst story ever. Elizabeth Colbert is author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book

1:43.4

The Sixth Extinction and covers climate and other stories for The New Yorker.

1:47.0

She was joined at a recent Climate One event by another journalist, David Roberts,

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