The Los Angeles Times published a sprawling essay Wednesday written by environmental reporter Rosanna Xia, who expressed overwhelming grief about the prospect of climate change and called to “fix individualism” and “reimagine” society’s “systems” to address climate change.
“How do you cope? I feel the sorrow, the quiet plea for guidance every time someone asks me this question. As an environmental reporter dedicated to helping people make sense of climate change, I know I should have answers,” Xia lamented in her essay. “But the truth is, it took me until now to face my own grief.”
Two paragraphs later, Xia said that she finds herself “questioning whether I could ever justify bringing my own children into this world,” adding that she “can’t help but feel like we’re just counting down the days to our own extinction” and noting the amount of plastic used nationwide and decreasing populations of certain butterfly species.
Xia’s essay underscores how energy and environmental reporters, purportedly tasked with objectively reporting stories related to their beat, often have the same views as far-left climate activists. Such despair about climate, for example, is a hallmark of groups that have called on the federal government to declare a “climate emergency” and disrupt public events nationwide to protest fossil fuels.
Later in her story, Xia calls for fixing “individualism” and reimagining “the systems that got us into such a devastating crisis in the first place” in order to save the planet. […]
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