Episode 305: Nathaniel Rich

Published: Aug. 8, 2018, 2:44 p.m.

b'Nathaniel Rich is a novelist and a writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine. His most recent article is "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change."\\n\\n\\u201cThere\\u2019s a huge opportunity with climate change because we talk a lot about the political issue with it, the industry story and the scientific story, but we don\\u2019t talk about the human story. And I would say that not only is it a big human story, but it is the human story. ... With every step of the ladder that we\\u2019ve advanced, we\\u2019re borrowing from our future. I don\\u2019t think we\\u2019ve reckoned with that in a serious way.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Read This Summer, Google Play, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@NathanielRich\\nnathanielrich.com\\nRich on Longform\\nLongform Podcast #96: Nathaniel Rich\\n[00:30] King Zeno (MCD \\u2022 2018)\\n[1:30] "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change" (New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Aug 2018)\\n[4:10] "Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart" (Scott Anderson \\u2022 New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Aug 2018)\\n[45:30] "The Problem With The New York Times\\u2019 Big Story on Climate Change" (Robinson Meyer \\u2022 The Atlantic \\u2022 Aug 2018)\\n[57:59] No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies (William Vollmann \\u2022 Viking \\u2022 2018)\\n[58:00] No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies (William Vollmann \\u2022 Viking \\u2022 2018)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'