Environmental Journalism: A Genre of Writing Lost In Its Own Crisis
Today’s most urgent writing becomes marginalized by failing to honestly question its purpose
“Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months.”
BBC headline, 24th July 2019.
“Only 11 Years Left to Prevent Irreversible Damage from Climate Change.”
United Nations Press Release, 28th March 2019
“Only Ten Years Left to Fix Climate Emergency.”
World Economic Forum Press Release, 20th February 2020
This last headline doubles down still further in the body of the piece, where WEF president Børge Brende goes on to explain that we only have “a very small window and if we don’t use that window in the next ten years we will be moving around deckchairs on the Titanic.”
