Covering Climate Now

Covering Climate Now: Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation

What you want to do
is engage people, to tell them what others
are doing, how people are mobilizing, what solutions
are, what they can do,

what the Green New
Deal is, what it means not just for cities
but for farmers, for rural communities, what
it means for creating jobs, why it matters to a coal
miner as well as to someone walking down the streets
of New York City.

News media can no longer be complacent when it comes to climate change. Over 150 media outlets have joined Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to commit for one week from 9/16 – 9/23 to report on how our actions have been devastating to our planet. Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, shares her perspective. See CJR’s full series here: https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/