A big part of the internet was dunking on this Jonathan Franzen piece last week, entitled “What if we stopped pretending the climate apocalypse can be stopped?” The critiques ranged from “that’s not how climate change works” (to be fair to the critics, this was being said by actual climate scientists, so I’m sure they had valid points) to “rich white man who lives in Santa Cruz and is going to die before climate change gets bad conveniently says we should give up” (to be fair to Franzen, I don’t think he was suggesting we give up). Another common dig was “why don’t you get actual scientists to write about climate change for the New Yorker.” Surely, we can have both?
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A big part of the internet was dunking on this Jonathan Franzen piece last week, entitled “What if we stopped pretending the climate apocalypse can be stopped?” The critiques ranged from “that’s not how climate change works” (to be fair to the critics, this was being said by actual climate scientists, so I’m sure they had valid points) to “rich white man who lives in Santa Cruz and is going to die before climate change gets bad conveniently says we should give up” (to be fair to Franzen, I don’t think he was suggesting we give up). Another common dig was “why don’t you get actual scientists to write about climate change for the New Yorker.” Surely, we can have both?