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We need big-picture climate stories, now

Americans are losing interest in the climate crisis. Newspapers have a responsibility to wake them up.

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Emily Atkin
Aug 24, 2020
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If I worked at a Serious Major Newspaper or Magazine, I would be pushing hard this week to have editors assign a major, big-picture cover story about coronavirus and climate change.

The headline would be “Climate Change, a Deadly Crisis, Accelerates Amid Pandemic.” Or maybe something lighter: “Two Crises, Both Deadly, Collide And Ruin Lives.”

Clearly, th…

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