Thread by @billmckibben

Right before Xmas New Yorker editor David Remnick called to ask if I'd do a weekly climate newsletter under the magazine's auspices. My 1st reaction was yes: it was where I'd begun writing about all this in my early 20s and now I was...older if not wiser
newyorker.com/home/newslette…

But my 2nd reaction was, what about this newsletter HEATED that @emorwee had just launched, and that I was very much enjoying. Would it damage her effort? So I asked, and she graciously said she thought not: "there's plenty of space out there for more newsletters...Hell yeah!"

So I decided to proceed--I'm not competing with HEATED, which you can sign up for here: heated.world And since mine is free, you will have money to subscribe to hers, and since mine is weekly you will have time to read her daily output

What I'm going to try and do in The Climate Crisis (titled with a nod to the storied newspaper that W.E.B. DuBois began 110 years ago for the NAACP) is provide some ongoing context to the climate story--I have, perhaps, some idea of how new developments fit into the big picture

So each week a short essay, and some links to things that seem important. But I also want to highlight the powerfully diverse voices that are emerging with each passing week from all over the globe. So there will be a regular short interview: "Pass the Mic."

If you read my twitter feed occasionally, you'll know it's largely devoted to saying thanks to people for the good work they're doing, and trying to surface that work so others can see. So I'll be attempting to do that in a slightly more formal way in this newsletter.

It's been a while--really, since I left the New Yorker at age 26, which would have been, um, 1986--that I've had a regular weekly opportunity like this. So I hope I'm still capable of it. If you're interested, you can sign up here.
newyorker.com/home/newslette…

And I hope you will send me things and people you think need highlighting. And remember to subscribe to @emorwee's valiant effort too!