The Uninhabitable Earth

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i think it's complicated stet of issues to navigate on the particular question of the tile of my book. I think titles are often hyperbolic, and smart readers understand that. But it is the case that, given unmitigated warming, we are talking about large parts of the world that will look a lot more like the sahel than they will look like whatever austria. And i think here, you mention briefly earlier the experience in the pendemic. We're now at basically ten times that level - maybe even higher. It shows how much we can choose to emphasize human suffering or de-emphasize things that we know will cause us harm. The choice was purely moral

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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