Photo: Pableaux JohnsonLong before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal, long before An Inconvenient Truth and WALL-E, there was Edward Teller, a physicist known best as the father of the hydrogen bomb. In 1959 he addressed a gathering of oil executives in New York, warning against the long-term impact of fossil fuels: a Cassandra athwart the coal mines. No tree-hugging liberal, Teller grasped that the future of humanity — and the future of corporate profits — were inextricably bound up in our planet’s health, in our species’ ability to adapt in the face of sudden, toxic peril.This is just one of many revelatory anecdotes in Nathaniel Rich’s richly drawn, propulsive Losing Earth: A Recent History, an expansion of last year’s acclaimed New York Times Magazine essay. Rich tracks a through-line over a single decade, 1979-1989, when American and international interests aligned. From the fabricated canyons of Manhattan to the coral reefs of the Pacific, governments and captains of industry alike considered the science and resolved to do something about it. As Rich writes in his introduction, “Nearly everything we understand about global warming was understood in 1979,” and its central points were widely accepted: “The conditions for success were… Read full this story
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