Geoff Dembicki is a Canadian climate journalist and author. He wrote ''Are We Screwed?'' (2017) and ''

The Petroleum Papers ''The Petroleum Papers'' is a 2022 non-fiction book by journalist Geoff Dembicki on climate change and the fossil fuel industry. The book documents that specific oil companies had an early awareness of the relationship between climate change and ...

'' (2022).

Early life and education

Dembicki is from

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in journalism from

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning Worl ...

in 2008.

Career

Dembicki started his career as climate journalist, in 2009, joining ''The Tyee'' as an intern, starting employment there in 2010. His work has been published in ''

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'', ''The New York Times'', ''

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and

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.'' His ''Foreign Policy'' piece ''The Convenient Disappearance of Climate Change Denial in China Energy'' won the Energy of Words Media Contest in 2018. He is the author of two books on climate change: ''Are We Screwed?'' ''and The Petroleum Papers'' (2022). ''Are We Screwed?'' won the

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Green Prize for Sustainable Literature in 2018, and the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book Award for Social Justice Writing in 2017. ''The Petroleum Papers'' was shortlisted for the

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer. Canada's most lucrative non-fiction prize, the winner ...

Books

* ''Are We Screwed? 2017, Bloomsbury'' * ''The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change'', Greystone Books, 2022

Personal life

Dembicki is based in Brooklyn, New York.

References

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External links

Geoff Dembicki
- Twitter * Geoff Dembicki
How a New Generation Is Fighting to Survive Climate Change, At TEDxEastVan, Geoff Dembicki shares how young people are battling environmental doomsday
2016, The Tyee. * Geoff Dembicki
''The Convenient Disappearance of Climate Change Denial in China''
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