Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

By NATHANIEL RICH AUG. 1, 2018

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way.
Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.

Thirty years ago, we had a chance to save the planet.

The science of climate change was settled.
The world was ready to act.

Almost nothing stood in our way -- except ourselves.

Editor's Note

This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the
10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind
first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of
climate change. Complementing the text is a series of aerial
photographs and videos, all shot over the past year by George
Steinmetz. With support [16]from the Pulitzer Center, this two-part
article is based on 18 months of reporting and well over a hundred
interviews. It tracks the efforts of a small group of American
scientists, activists and politicians to raise the alarm and stave off
catastrophe. It will come as a revelation to many readers -- an
agonizing revelation -- to understand how thoroughly they grasped the
problem and how close they came to solving it. Jake Silverstein

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