Season 1, Episode 5: Philip Shabecoff

July 9, 2020

The dean of environmental journalism.

As the environmental correspondent for the New York Times from 1977 to 1991, Philip rang the alarm bell loud and clear on the coming climate crisis, loss of species, the ozone hole, environmental racism and more. But his reporting on the dire state of our environment and what it meant for humanity spelled the end of his job for America’s most prominent newspaper. Philip went on to found Greenwire and write several books on the environment, including A Fierce Green Fire: the American Environmental Movement, which has been made into a movie narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabelle Allende, and Meryl Streep.

Philip offers insight and wisdom on the crisis that he tried so hard to prevent with his prescient reporting.

““Activists are going to have to take political action to take things back. More and more people are doing whatever they can individually and as localities — towns, cities — but we have to have an all-out political commitment to tackling this issue.””

— Philip Shabecoff