Writing about climate change: my professional detachment has finally turned to panic | Michael Slezak

I've maintained a wall between my job and my emotional response to it, but this month I've felt dread rising about looming disaster, and it's an awakening

Until recently, like a sociopath might have little feelings when witnessing violence, I've managed to have relatively mild emotional responses to climate change.

For five years I've been covering climate change - the science that underpins it, the things that are driving it, the devastation it is wreaking, and the desperate measures we need to urgently put in place to mitigate it. (Not to mention the reporting I've done on the pathetic politics surrounding it.)