2024-09-24
8 分钟Hi, I'm Josh Haner and I'm a staff photographer at the New York Times covering climate change.
For years, we've sort of imagined this picture of a polar bear floating on a piece of ice.
Those have been the images associated with climate change.
My challenge is to find stories that show you how climate change is affecting our world right now.
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This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm Nicholas Kristof.
I'm a columnist at the New York Times.
Usually, column writing is a one way street and we pontificate and tell the world what we think.
And instead today I've invited some people who really disagreed with a column to speak up and set me right.
Now I want to persuade readers I want to win them over on issues that I care deeply about.
That's why I am a columnist.
And I think I'm more likely to win people over if I treat their criticism seriously and engage with them.
And that's what I'm trying to do right now.
Let me tell you about my column first.
In it, I quoted Bill Clinton in his speech at the Democratic National Convention in which he said it's important to try to persuade voters we disagree with, and we do that by listening to them rather than by demeaning them.
I urge you to meet people where they are.
I urge you to not to demean them, but not to pretend you don't disagree with them.