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On climate change

To build climate progress on time scales that matter, Biden should be Biden

 

ABSTRACT

During the 1980s, conservatives tied themselves in knots worrying about how to handle their man in the White House, before finally deciding to “Let Reagan be Reagan.” In the 2020s, progressives should “Let Biden be Biden.”

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Notes on contributors

Andrew Revkin

Andrew Revkin is the founding director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability (https://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu). He is one of the world’s most experienced and honored journalists on the climate beat, having written in depth on climate change since 1985, mostly for The New York Times. Revkin’s latest book, with the aerial photojournalist George Steinmetz, is The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene (Abrams Books, 2020) https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/human-planet_9781419742774/.

Follow him at @Revkin on Twitter.

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