Andrew Revkin
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Then comes a human ignition.
It's almost always human ignitions.
And then you have this disaster where 1,000 homes burn in Boulder County.
And it's like there's so many elements there that can be worked on that give me confidence that we can change these outcomes.
Disasters are not natural.
Disasters are designed, really, as some people say.
Well, some people say there was this industry or propagandistic shift from, let's see, what was it?
Which came first?
Oh, no, they're going to climate change now.
Like it's a new thing, which is, it's ridiculous.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1988 wasn't the Intergovernmental Panel on Global Warming.
It was on climate change.
So these terms have been there.
They've been sort of evolving.
When I wrote this cover story, it was the greenhouse effect.
Well, it's really, that's the physical effect that's holding in the heat.
No, no.
Well, the Guardian newspaper has made it worse.
Now they have their style book.
Every newspaper has a…