![]() ![]() ![]() But let’s begin with the speed of change. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all, and comes to us bundled with several others in an anthology of comforting delusions: that global warming is an Arctic saga, unfolding remotely that it is strictly a matter of sea level and coastlines, not an enveloping crisis sparing no place and leaving no life un-deformed that it is a crisis of the “natural” world, not the human one that those two are distinct, and that we live today somehow outside or beyond or at the very least defended against nature, not circumscribed and literally overwhelmed by it that wealth can be a shield against the ravages of warming that the burning of fossil fuels is the price of continued economic growth that growth, and the technology it produces, will allow us to engineer our way out of environmental disaster that there is any analogue to the scale or scope of this threat, in the long span of human history, that might give us confidence in staring it down. The opening line isn’t too comforting either: “It is worse, much worse, than you think.”Ĭoming soon on the PBS NewsHour, Wallace-Wells sits down for a conversation with correspondent William Brangham about his new book. In his new book, “The Uninhabitable Earth,” the author takes humans - us - to task for our complacency. David Wallace-Wells doesn’t pull any punches about the effects of climate change. ![]()
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