In the August 5th issue, The NYT Sunday magazine will contain one single cli-fi story: On humankind’s inability to address the catastrophe of climate change and how cli-fi novelists are responding with novels and movies.

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On August 1, our entire magazine will contain one single cli-fi story: On humankind’s inability to address the catastrophe of climate change. Join us for a special conversation with @jakesilverstein and the cli-fi novelist @NathanielRich. He wrote ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW. 

In the August 5th issue, The NYT Sunday magazine will contain one single cli-fi story written by cli-fi novelist Nat Rich (Odds Against Tomorrow): On humankind’s inability to address the catastrophe of climate change and how cli-fi novelists are responding with novels and movies. https://nyti.ms/2mIpmUK  via The Cli-Fi Report cli-fi.net #CliFi

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Today, we live with the problem of climate change as if it were an inevitability. But that wasn’t always the case. During the ten years from 1979 to 1989, we came very close to solving the problem of global warming. Science, industry, government, the international community — everyone was on board and ready to act. How we got there, and why we ultimately failed, is the subject of a major new project from The New York Times Sunday Magazine.

The August 5 issue of the magazine will be dedicated to a single nonfiction story by cli-fi novelist [ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW] Nat Rich, a writer at large for the magazine, that tells the story of this critical decade in the planet’s history, and the individuals -- cli-fi novelists too -- who tried to warn us. Rich’s narrative is accompanied by a series of stunning photos from around the world by George Steinmetz that show the profound effects of womankind’s inability to effectively address this fast-moving dis-catastrophe. This story will change the way you think about climate change. Maybe. Maybe not.

Please join us for a special launch event to mark the publication of this landmark issue at TheTimesCenter on Wednesday, August 1. Jake Silverstein, editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine, will be in conversation with Nathaniel Rich, George Steinmetz, and two of the primary subjects of the story, the former NASA geophysicist James Hansen and the environmental activist Rafe Pomerance.

The special issue, which will go online earlier that day, is published in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.