2018: The Wake-Up Call

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 CruzOn Being, We Need Courage, Not Hope to Face Climate Change, by Kate MarvelSlate, Who is the WE in “We Are Causing Climate Change”? by Genevieve GuentherThe New York Times Magazine, Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change, by Nathaniel RichThe New York Times, A Man Set Himself on Fire. We Barely Noticed, by Nathan EnglanderThe Atlantic, Climate Change May Cause 26000 More U.S. Suicides by 2050, by Robinson MeyerThe Guardian Suicides of Nearly 60,000 Farmers Linked to Climate Change, Study Claims, by Michael SafiThe New York Times, A Warming World Creates Desperate People, by Lauren MarkhamThe New Republic, Climate Kings, by Samuel Miller McDonaldThe Intercept, There's Nothing Natural about Puerto Rico's Disaster, by Naomi KleinProPublica and Reveal, Flood Thy Neighbor, by Lisa Song and Patrick MichelsThe New York Times, California's Underwater Forests Are Being Eaten by the 'Cockroaches of the Ocean,' by Kendra Pierre-LouisVice, Sons of the Pre-Apocalypse, by Brian MerchantThe Guardian, Don't Despair: The climate fight is only over if you think it is, by Rebecca Solnit

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