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[Trump Denies Climate Change and These Kids Die of It]
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
That’s me in Madagascar with a couple of Times video colleagues, Adam Ellick and Ben Solomon, interviewing families suffering from climate change. A brutal drought that scientists link to climate change is causing severe malnutrition across a swath of southern Africa, but it hasn’t received much attention. [My column] on it will run in print Sunday, but we just posted it online with the video. This is the kind of reporting I deeply believe in, so please [read and watch]!
I’m also lucky that The Times still has the resources to send me halfway around the world to document these stories. The Times has had a flood of new subscribers since the presidential election, in hopes that we will be a good watchdog. We thank you for that — and I’ll do my best.
The deadline to apply for my annual [win-a-trip journey], in which I take a university student on a reporting trip, is this Sunday. The trips have often been life-changing for the winner (turning talented young people away from lucrative careers in business toward penurious futures in journalism or humanitarian work). Any bright young person whose future you want to impoverish, just tell them to apply immediately! I think in 2017 we’ll travel to Liberia and maybe a neighboring country.
By the way, somebody just asked how I decide where to go on trips. Don’t tell anyone, but one factor is really practical: Visas! I’ve been trying since September to get a visa to Venezuela, and haven’t been able to get one. North Korea hasn’t let me in since my last trip a decade ago, but I’m still trying. I’ve been negotiating with rebels in another country for months, and I think they’re finally going to admit me next month. I’m simultaneously working on three other countries, but the visas are so sensitive and difficult for journalists in those places that I don’t particularly want to name them here and risk complication. But if you happen to have a Venezuelan visa in your passport and look just like me, hey, give me a call.
And now [here’s my column] about villagers who have never heard of Donald Trump or even of America, but whose children are dying from climate change partly caused by the U.S. I think it’s an important, moving story, and I hope you’ll read and share. [Thanks!]
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