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Summary: The intersection of conflict, climate, and disease has never been more apparent, and neither has public need for “journalistic rigor and urgency.” On this week’s Kicker, E. Tammy Kim, a freelance reporter and essayist, and Mark Hertsgaard, the environmental correspondent for The Nation, speak with Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of CJR, on what COVID-19 and the climate crisis reveal about the problem of social systems that are exclusionary by design.