Dear Friend,

It’s a strange time to be alive. The climate crisis is upon us. But what lies ahead, unchecked, will be much, much worse. Each person and each publication approaches this reality in a different way. Accurately reporting the unfolding disaster risks overwhelming readers.

At The New Republic’s climate vertical, Apocalypse Soon, we’re trying to square that circle, pairing an unflinching gaze into the future with clear reporting and analysis explaining who’s actually responsible for it and what actions will truly make a difference. (This topic is devastating, so let’s not add to it with distraction, confusion, and paralyzing guilt for forgetting to recycle the peanut butter jar.)

We’re also bringing you thoughtful essays about what it means to live in this moment, breathing and eating and loving with global warming hanging over it all. On any given day, I’m never quite sure whether we’ve struck the perfect balance between optimism and pessimism to bring us internet clicks. But I feel good about our honesty. And I’ll keep publishing stories to take to heart, like the following:

• Kate Aronoff’s “Conservatives Are Seriously Accusing Wind Turbines of Killing People in the Texas Blackouts”
• Nick Martin’s “Teenagers Deserve a Place at Biden’s Climate Table”
• Alex Pareene’s “Buy Every American an Electric Moped’’
• Gabriel N. Rosenberg and Jan Dutkiewicz’s “The Meat Industry’s Bestiality Problem”

My team and I are acutely aware that we cannot do this without you, and we are immensely grateful for support like yours that ensures we can continue to produce this kind of rigorous, uncompromising content.

Please help us keep it up—the wide-ranging essays, hard-hitting investigations, and other explorations of our climate politics—by helping this team of incredible independent journalists.

Heather Souvaine Horn, editor of TNR’s Apocalypse Soon

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