Climate Change - What's the Value of an Extremist Frame?

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I'm struck by the fact that you are one of the most well known journalists about this. The impression i got from talking to you enough for 50 minutes is quite different from what a lot of consensus about climate change sounds like in the newspapers. This has been wonderfulview of a situation were facing. Just what sort of round off conversation, i want to think a little bit about how to communicate this and how it often is communicated. There's no distance, i don't think, between the consensus in scientific literature and the way you talking about bis.

David Wallace-Wells is one of the foremost journalists covering climate change. A writer at The New York Times and a columnist at The New York Times Magazine, Wallace-Wells is the author of the best-selling book The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. His New York Magazine article of the same name was the most read in the magazine’s history.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and David Wallace-Wells discuss why the worst scenarios for the future of climate outcomes have become less likely over the course of the last years; how much damage climate change is nevertheless likely to wreak; and what political, economic, and technological solutions might help humanity deal with this urgent challenge.

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