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Do we need to be 'scared straight' on climate change?
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?
By León Krauze • • 51m ListenPhoto: Illustration from David Wallace-Wells' "The Uninhabitable Earth" (Heartless Machine)
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