It is absolutely time to panic about climate change
It is absolutely time to panic about climate change
Author David Wallace-Wells on the dystopian hellscape that awaits us
"It is, I promise, worse than you think."
That was the fist line of David Wallace-Wells horrifying 2017 essay in New York Magazine* about climate change. It ws an attempt to pain a very real picture of our not-too-distant future, a future filled with famines, political chaos, economic collapse, fierce resource competition and a sun that cooks us
* When Will the Planet Be Too Hot for Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine.
Wallace-Wells has developed his essay into a new book: The Uninhabitable Earth.
You should check out the Vox article at the top link. The first of many points: the difference between constraining the temperature rise to 1.5C rather than 2C would be the deaths of 150 million people, from air pollution alone.
It is absolutely time to panic about climate change
Author David Wallace-Wells on the dystopian hellscape that awaits us
"It is, I promise, worse than you think."
That was the fist line of David Wallace-Wells horrifying 2017 essay in New York Magazine* about climate change. It ws an attempt to pain a very real picture of our not-too-distant future, a future filled with famines, political chaos, economic collapse, fierce resource competition and a sun that cooks us
* When Will the Planet Be Too Hot for Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine.
Wallace-Wells has developed his essay into a new book: The Uninhabitable Earth.
You should check out the Vox article at the top link. The first of many points: the difference between constraining the temperature rise to 1.5C rather than 2C would be the deaths of 150 million people, from air pollution alone.