If we do nothing, the neighborhoods of South Park and Georgetown—including Boeing Field—will be flooding daily by 2104, according to scientific projections. MALCOLM SMITH
The environmental science I studied in college kept me up at night. As a journalist covering an enormous and mystifying Arctic oil-drilling rig sitting next to Elliott Bay years later, I’m now taking notes on how other people are thinking about climate change, talking about the future of energy production and global emissions, and making their voices heard in public, too. Months of following the local, national, and international debate about the Arctic drilling fleet made me want to go back to the people who started the original conversation about burning fossil fuels, the people who’ve been warning us about the climate for years, the people whose opinions are checked by a very solid foundation in the facts: the scientists…
