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Emily Atkin

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I run HEATED, a weekly-ish newsletter devoted to climate accountability journalism. Philly-based. She/her.

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A powerful argument against the certainty of doom

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By Emily Atkin
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This July 4 weekend has the potential to be soul-crushing. On the East Coast, a brutal heat wave is reminding everyone that the climate crisis is not some future abstraction, but an extremely scary present-tense physical condition. In Europe, another heat wave has already killed more than 1,300 people.
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I have plastic chemicals in my pee

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By Emily Atkin
| HEATED (US)
By now, you have probably heard that microplastics are everywhere. You may have even heard it at this newsletter. That basic idea is still true: plastic pollution is in a lot of places. But lately, some scientists have raised serious questions about some of the more viral studies claiming that large quantities of tiny plastic particles have been found in nearly every part of the human body.
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It doesn't have to be like this

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By Emily Atkin
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People say all the time, metaphorically, that the country is on fire. Right now, the country is also actually, literally on fire. There are currently 27 uncontained large wildfires currently burning across the United States. Three near the Florida Everglades have torched an area the size of Manhattan. Another in Washington state has destroyed at least 15 homes and burned an area roughly the size of Miami.
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