Climate Change

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Renewable energy costs have fallen so dramatically, and in part because we're geting a clearer sense of especially the health effects of burning fossil fuelds. A decade or two decades ago, it really was the case that basically like nobody was going to move unless we all moved. That calculus has really changed. It means that every individual nation can seize this bargain and make better investments rather than worse investments. And i think we're already starting to see that, not in terms of concrete investments yet, but in terms of pledges that are being made by nations all round the world.

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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