2024-08-16
16 分钟Hi, I'm Josh Haner, and I'm a staff photographer at the New York Times covering climate change.
For years, we've sort of imagined this picture of a polar bear floating on a piece of ice.
Those have been the images associated with climate change.
My challenge is to find stories that show you how climate change is affecting our world right now.
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This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm Aaron Retica.
I am an editor in the Opinion section of the Times, and I work with a number of our columnists and contributing writers, mostly on American politics.
We're thinking constantly in opinion about the divisions in the country.
And one of our columnists and someone I work closely with who has really explored this deeply is David French.
He is in a unique position because he was once a fierce partisan, as he says himself, a Romney delegate in 2012.
But for the apostasy of not wanting Donald Trump to be president, he was cast out of a number of Republican institutions, but not only Republicans and institutions, also from his church.
In the end, and a few months ago, David wrote a column about being canceled by his church.
And so we decided to sit down and talk about what exactly happened and how his readers reacted to the essay.
David, let me ask you to tell the story.
In the first place, could you just tell us a little bit about the church, why you were attracted to it, and then the sequence of events that led to you being canceled.
The story really begins in 2004.
I had just uprooted my family from Kentucky, where we were living, and moved to center city Philly.