ASU Insight: Climate Change - This Time It’s Personal

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Climate Change: This Time, It’s Personal
Personal narratives can provide the diversity of voices and values needed to effectively confront the complex challenges of a changing world. In a provocative new essay, award-winning environmental journalist Andrew C. Revkin brings forth one of these vital stories: his own. Chronicling the shifts in his thinking (and writing) over thirty years of covering climate change for outlets like the New York Times, he concludes, surprisingly, “global warming doesn’t worry me.”

Please join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Andrew about the challenges of writing about climate change and making an impact on readers through personal narrative. He will be joined by Lee Gutkind, founding editor of Creative Nonfiction, and Daniel Sarewitz, co-editor of Issues in Science and Technology; Andrew’s essay appears in the current issues of both magazines.

Speakers:

Andy Revkin
Science Writer for the New York Times

Daniel Sarewitz
Co-Director, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes
Professor of Science and Society, School for the Future of Innovation in Society

Lee Gutkind
Professor
Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
CSPO