Publications Director @ NRDC & writer in my own right. Based in the Bronx. Raised in Birmingham, AL and Port Gibson, MS. James Baldwin is my personal hero.
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Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat
I’m with you when you say that climate change is the most important issue facing humankind. I’ll even go so far as to say it’s the most important one ever. But, when I hear folks say—and I have heard it—that the environmental movement is the first in history to stare down an existential threat, I have to get off the train.
March 6, 2019