2018 brought massive change to the ways we talk about climate. Global climate scientists put out the most alarming report yet on climate change impacts and projections, and media covered that report with the seriousness it deserved. The climate movement finally started moving past the hope narrative, and with megastorms ramping up and a town called Paradise burning down, climate change became impossible to ignore.
Reading List:
The Atlantic, The Media Barely Covered One of the Worst Storms to Hit U.S. Soil, by Alia Wong and Lenika Cruz
On Being, We Need Courage, Not Hope to Face Climate Change, by Kate Marvel
Slate, Who is the WE in “We Are Causing Climate Change”? by Genevieve Guenther
The New York Times Magazine, Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change, by Nathaniel Rich
The New York Times, A Man Set Himself on Fire. We Barely Noticed, by Nathan Englander
The Atlantic, Climate Change May Cause 26000 More U.S. Suicides by 2050, by Robinson Meyer
The Guardian Suicides of Nearly 60,000 Farmers Linked to Climate Change, Study Claims, by Michael Safi
The New York Times, A Warming World Creates Desperate People, by Lauren Markham
The New Republic, Climate Kings, by Samuel Miller McDonald
The Intercept, There's Nothing Natural about Puerto Rico's Disaster, by Naomi Klein
ProPublica and Reveal, Flood Thy Neighbor, by Lisa Song and Patrick Michels
The New York Times, California's Underwater Forests Are Being Eaten by the 'Cockroaches of the Ocean,' by Kendra Pierre-Louis
Vice, Sons of the Pre-Apocalypse, by Brian Merchant
The Guardian, Don't Despair: The climate fight is only over if you think it is, by Rebecca Solnit