Elizabeth Kolbert and David Roberts: Covering Catastrophe
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:40.3 | getting to the story can be a challenge. |
| 0:42.3 | On some level it's the worst story ever. |
| 0:44.3 | It is ubiquitous, but very hard to pin down. |
| 0:48.3 | It's being caused by everyone and everything, |
| 0:52.3 | and therefore it's sort of everything and nothing. |
| 0:57.0 | And so finding the narrative is very, very difficult. |
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| 1:24.3 | Covering catastrophe. Up next on Climate One. |
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