Pushkin.

There is a deep desire to think about the issue of climate change in broader, more personal terms,

and it's a desire that's not being met.

And I think the reception of this story has shown that.

People are worried about this.

People feel it.

There's a sense of unresolved, whether it's guilt or angst or whatever you want to describe it, that's out there,

that's not being met by the writing about this issue, and it's not being met by the way people

talk about the issue. And I think that has to change

there's a great desire for it to change but we haven't quite figured out how to do it but I think

it'll happen soon. That was Nathaniel Rich. I'm San Francisco so and this is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. Oh, In August the New York Times magazine devoted a whole issue, cover-to-cover, to a landmark

article entitled Losing Earth, The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change. The unprecedented piece was the decade we almost stopped climate change.

The unprecedented piece was written by journalist Nathaniel Rich

who spent 18 months investigating the time between 1979 and 1989.

It's the decade in which humans really first began

to understand the causes and dangers of climate change.

For those who have yet to read the piece, I'll read a bit from the prologue for context.

The world has warmed more than one degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, writes

rich. The Paris Climate Agreement, the non-Boiselle. the 2016 hope to restrict warming to two degrees.

The odds of succeeding, according to a recent study based on current emission trends, are

1 in 20. If by some miracle we are able to limit warming to 2 degrees,

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