The Uninhabitable Earth began as a 2017 cover story for New York magazine. Climate change isn’t discrete acts of God, Wallace-Wells argues in this riveting jeremiad, but something so total, so all-enveloping, so unsparingly transformative as to implicate every person on the planet-even those of us who mistakenly think we’re in the clear. If you, like me, live far away from the areas most routinely hit by climate disaster, you may think of global warming as something reassuringly distant-a horrible phenomenon confined to a vague “over there.” You wake up, scan the news, shake your head at the latest famine or wildfire, and then move on to your muesli, visions of apocalypse banished with the rush of the day.Įxposing the danger of this delusion is among the primary aims of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells.
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