David Wallace-Wells on Climate Change
The Good Fight
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The Uninhabitable Earth
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
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