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Podcast: When Can I Take Off My Mask?

Podcast: When Can I Take Off My Mask? © Shutterstock / The Atlantic The coronavirus pandemic has led businesses and governments to perform “hygiene theater,” which can give a false sense of security. But how do we thread the needle between being too cautious and too cavalier? Derek Thompson joins James Hamblin and Maeve Higgins to help us understand. Listen to their conversation on the podcast Social Distance: What follows is a transcript of their conversation, edited for length and clarity: Maeve Higgins: Can you explain what “hygiene theater” is? Derek Thompson: I would define hygiene theater as activities that might make you

Climate journalism enters the solutions era

Climate journalism enters the solutions era In the summer of 2018, Esquire summed up the US media’s climate mood board with a feature on traumatized climate scientists, titled, “When the End of Civilization is Your Day Job.” That summer, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration reported another astounding leap in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and its acting head a Trump appointee reportedly floated purging the word “climate” from the agency’s mission statement. Climate news was frightening, and often frighteningly absurd.  So when Mothers of Invention, a climate podcast, premiered that summer, it sounded like a broadcast from an alternate, better reality. In it, Mary Robinson, Ireland’s first female president and former United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, and her co-host Maeve Higgins, an Irish comedian and writer, interviewed women and girls, largely from the global south and indigenous communities, who were tackling the climate crisis wit

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