
Hertsgaard is the author of seven previous books that have been translated into a total of seventeen languages. He is the environment correspondent for The Nation and the executive director of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now Deborah “Big Red” Cotton and I met by getting shot together. It was a Mother’s Day afternoon during Barack Obama’s second term as America’s first Black president. We were two of 19 people gunned down in the biggest mass shooting in the modern history of New Orleans, a city stained by racism...