"Thirty-six years ago, the American journalist Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature, the first mass-market book about climate change. The book warned, from the perspective of a lover of nature, about the dangers posed by a warming planet: Changes in our world which can affect us can happen in our lifetimenot just changes like wars but bigger and more sweeping events. Without recognizing it, we have already stepped over the threshold of such a change."
"The rain will still fall, and the sun will still shine. When I say nature, I mean a certain set of human ideas about the world and our place in it More and more frequently, these changes will clash with our perceptions, until our sense of nature as eternal and separate is finally washed away and we see all too clearly what we have done."
Global warming is producing increasingly deadly and destructive heat, fire, drought, and storms that signal risks of irreversible climate tipping points such as collapse of the Gulf Stream, the Atlantic current that keeps northern Europe habitable. Despite rising harms, climate change receives limited media attention: in the United States only 37% report hearing about global warming at least monthly, and in India 53% do. News organizations face shrinking revenues, reduced editorial staffs, and intensified workloads. Newsrooms are also focused on major conflicts and overwhelmed by frequent policy shifts and provocative rhetoric from the US president, contributing to reduced climate coverage.
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