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To the Point
To the Point

Do we need to be 'scared straight' on climate change?

Hosted by León Krauze Jul. 14, 2017 National
Maybe you're one of the two million people who read or shared the recent New York Magazine cover story, which dares to imagine an "uninhabitable Earth." Maybe you liked it. Maybe you found it unhelpful or excessive. Guest host León Krauze  asks, is it an exercise in journalistic alarmism or necessary scientific awareness?

Photo: Illustration from David Wallace-Wells' "The Uninhabitable Earth" (Heartless Machine)

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León Krauze

Producers:
Katie Cooper, Yael Even Or, Evan George, Devan Schwartz

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