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Climate Change as a Metaphor

excerpted from Elizabeth Kolbert and David Roberts: Covering Catastrophe
Recorded on September 2017

Climate Change as a Metaphor

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Vox staff writer, David Roberts talks about the difficulties of using metaphors to explain the gravity of climate disruption.

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Elizabeth Kolbert

Journalist, The New Yorker; Author, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

David Roberts

Staff Writer, Vox

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