Don’t lose sleep over Arctic melt GORDON WILTSIE/National Geographic Creative
A bleak article in New York magazine headlined 鈥溾 has created a storm among the climatorati. It describes how global warming will lead to famine, economic collapse and 鈥渁 sun that cooks us鈥.
The piece has provoked two main criticisms. The first is to say it isn鈥檛 helpful, that frightening people leads to despair rather than action. Maybe, but that鈥檚 a ludicrous criticism of any piece of reporting.
In my view, the job of journalists is to tell it like it is, not to spout…
