Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts. The reporting and photography for this project were supported by a major grant from the Pulitzer Center, which has also to bring the climate issue to students everywhere. An earlier version of this article misstated the type of solar panels installed by President Jimmy Carter on the White House roof. They were solar-thermal panels, not photovoltaic panels. An earlier version of this article misstated the number of acres that burned in Yellowstone National Park in 1988. Yellowstone lost 793,880 acres, not four million. An earlier version of this article erroneously cited a 1974 C.I.A. study. The study was about climate change; it was not specifically about global warming caused by carbon dioxide. is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine, for which he has written about , and a lawyers campaign to expose He is the author of three novels, including King Zeno, which was published in January. is a photographer who specializes in aerial imagery. He has won numerous awards including three prizes from World Press Photo and the Environmental Vision Award for his work on large-scale agriculture. He has published four books of photography, including his latest, New York Air: The View From Above. With additional reporting by who is a frequent contributor to the magazine and the author of Mental: Lithium, Love and Losing My Mind. She previously wrote a feature about