The saddest nine words in the world

Kate Havelin
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

The cover was black, with a barely visible dark gray masthead. All that stood out were nine simple words.

Thirty years ago, we could have saved the planet.

That sentence sums up the cover story — the only story — in the August 1st issue of The New York Times Magazine.

I didn’t read Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth when it was first published. I thought I…

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Kate Havelin

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Explore Twin Cities Outdoors is the newest of my 19 books, which also include 16 biographies and other nonfiction for middle and high school readers.

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