Geoff Dembicki | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | Carleton University |
Occupation | Journalist |
Employer | The Tyee |
Known for | The Petroleum Papers (2022 book) |
Geoff Dembicki is a Canadian climate journalist and author. He wrote the 2017 book Are We Screwed and the 2022 book The Petroleum Papers .
Dembicki is from Alberta. [1] He obtained his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Carleton University in 2008. [2]
Dembicki started his career as climate journalist, [1] in 2009, joining The Tyee as an intern, [3] starting employment there in 2010. [2] His work has been published in Vice News, Rolling Stone , The New York Times , [4] Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Penthouse, The Walrus and The Toronto Star. [2] His Foreign Policy piece The Convenient Disappearance of Climate Change Denial in China Energy won the Energy of Words Media Contest in 2018. [5]
He is the author of two books on climate change: Are We Screwed? [6] and The Petroleum Papers (2022). [7] Are We Screwed? won the Santa Monica Public Library Green Prize for Sustainable Literature in 2018, [8] [1] and the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book Award for Social Justice Writing in 2017. [2] The Petroleum Papers was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. [1]
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